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Annius went up,to a straggling the Roman citizens. They're com- bush and snapped off a branching here."

tearlag his thumb with a thorn. Annius looked down at the slavė, I have memories of some of the He threw down the branch, and calls lad whom he had beaten a week protagonists: Sir Edward Grey od furiously to a slave...

ago for pilfering. "Get up, my when I breakfasted with him on "Here you! It's your work to lad." he said at last. "Thanks for the Saturday morning, pale and a look after the yard, Dig up the your warning. Take what you can. little haggard, but steadfast ns. rose bushes! Do you hear me?" and go." rock; Mr. Churchill's "high" apirits, He went indoors and, busied him- The slave blubbored. “You only which sobered now and then as he self in his study for a while, listen-had me beaten when I deserved it. remembered the desperato issues; ing. Then he went upstairs. Or- Annius raised him and led him Lord Haldane's uncanny placidity; chin was sitting at a tattice-window, kindly to the door. He wanted to Prince Lichnowsky's grey face and her head on her hands. He noticed be alone. There was no escape. tragic eyes."

how, worn she was looking he had He wouldn't be hunted down in the The chapters on the war are bril-n't" realised before how she seemed street. The house didn't even have lant resumes of the four years, to be ageing. Perbaps It was a aback entrance. He regretted only, one by one, reviewed from a height mere effect of light. Pity upwalled that his brother was away, with with a hawk-like clearness. I will tenderly; and then he was angrier the twenty soldiers. They would Jallow myself a few quotations, than ever. Angry at her thinning have died more fitly all together. Like the good Lowlander that he face. She took no care of herself, Then it would have been worth is, Mr. Buchan puts in a brave blaming it all on the Mysian cli- while fighting. One man could do and a true-word for Halg: mate.

nothing. It was the fact that ."Haig could never be a popular. She looked round in a stupefed nothing whatever could be done hero; he was too reserved, too spar-way that Increased his annoyance. that gave him a kind of dead un-i fing of speech, too fastidious. In It was surely, assumed.

shakable courage. the only days his limitations had "What's the surprise?

Orchia had shrunk back against i Been obvious, but slowly men had did you expect?***

the wall a hand at her mouth. come to perceive in him certain She answered in a low voice. Two of her slave girls had come qualities which the crista required. "That's it. I didn't expect anyone. terrified through a side door, 'and He was a master in the art of There's no one to expect. Nothing" were cowering against her, weeping training troops, and under his gul- She turned and looked out of the with half over their faces. Annies dance had been produced some of window:

Whom

motioned for them to go. They

"Get out," he said harshly,"and Orchia, still keeping her eyes fixed on him, pushed them away. They went out walling.

Death."

"What is it?" Orchis asked. "I don't know "Can't we "No"

.... escape?"!

He grew more cool and collected,

the chief tactical developments of "Then why are you sitting, there? clung to Orchis. the campaign. He had furnished You're always there. You seem to the ways and means for Foch's and something to watch." strategical plans. Certain kinds of She moved round on her stool; great soldier he was hot, but he whitefaced. "So you want to take was the type of great soldier most away my only pleasure, do you?" needed for this situation, and he "You sit there merely to hurt me. succeeded where a man of more There's nothing to see" showy endowments would have fail- "You're right. There's nothing. jed. Drawing comfort from deep shan't sit here again. You're

aprings, he bore in the face of dif- apolled it for me. You've made me almost numbed. He'd given up feulties a gentle and unshakable realise I set here only to escape thinking. He could realise nothing résolution."

myself, and I can't escape." except that he was going to die and

"0, woman's nonsense! Why was 'a Roman.

Orchia aren't you seeing to the house?!!

up to him, B "I've seen to I."

staring. She leaned against him, "Half-seen to it.

one hand on his shoulder. slaves cheat us."

"Dear ....

I don't want to die But I don't mind so much...

Mr. Lloyd George The one character that la drawn jat full length is that of Haig's most bitter critic, Mr. Lloyd George. It has often been essayed, but rarely better. done. The flavour is sharp to pungency.

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Letting the

"I hate the place. I hate it."

came

He had been waiting for her to If you love me.”

"Lord Milner, who had historical day it. He felt exultoht, and grew perspective and did not praise in- very calm.

His hardness melted within him,

melted, and left him still numbed,

side, and the rose-gardens of 'Sor- wild-eyed with rentum, and the blue waters with get ready at the graceful ships sailing by,

"Orchia," he said, and drew her

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"How can you in that first year and loved one its fatal facility in general ideas, say such things? You know Ianother still and cared for nothing! its sentimentality, its love of pic-won't go on my own. And you but that love. It was worth much, ituresque catchwords, and he had could do your work in Italy.

It's worth anything, to win that know- Jalso ita Incongruous realism in only that you're mad för moner. ledge again, to win it in a rarefled action....He had ademocrat's Mad, mad, mad!" Her voice road sweetness that echoed, while far short memory and its brittle loyal-almost into a scream...

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"Remember the servants," he vanished past. This sweetness wont "His loose held on principles kept said coldly. "I've made my deeper, deeper, there was nothing shan't beyond. it. In it their lives were tunism is often the right attitude in divorce you"

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and brought them pitilessly to (Continued from Page 8.) Minister, courage de tete, fearlesshaps in ten years' time I'll rejoin, "I don't care," murmured Orchla. face, their need * of one. another. Srd May Manila, Robaul, Brisbane, Sydney ness in the face of a swiftly chang-you."

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"I love you," he murmured; and ended, and another drama began, it must be that suit which 5th July

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The noise was nearing. The ad-pride of a Roman who abided by declarer had twice failed to sup- Coupon Election and the Parlia- She willed. "In Sorrentum.vance-guard of the mob were how his deeds.

port West, therefore, after a ment which it produced. The head-Think of the summer daya

ling under the window. They had "Death to the Romans! Down very slight hesitation opened the vest" suggests its contents. But at then shouted fiercely. ing of the chapter "Sour Apple Har- He waited for a moment, and begun to batter down the door, with the taxes! A free world!" Theart nine in preference to the The bolts gave way, and the mob A brawny arm reached through more normal lead of his fourth least the harvest was gathered by man's work to de. You don't une poured in. They rushed to ran and tore down the embroidered best spade. East won the first free men and not under the laah. derstand. Nothing shall stop me sack the lower rooms. The scared curtains and half a dozen men trick with the ten-spot, and re-

Presumably, the new Governor- "You beast, you beast," she sab alaves joined hem or lay whimper burst into the room. A huge turned & diamond.

West won General of Canada will not hava bed. "O your beast.” Then she ing in corners. An overturned fellow with an axe was at their this trick with his King and led much time for literature, and "the came towards him unsteadily, statue crashed. Feet sounded on head. They drew back a moment, another heart. The defence thus next Buchan" will be written above wringing her handa. "Come with the stairs.

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She moved wretchedly away, and "Yes, you bully." She began sob again pity came over, him. But he bing again. "I've seen you ruin refused to surrender. It was all people....only because you'd made her own fault. If he surrendered, up your mind. Tou vain to change she'd take it as a proof of weakness," She collapsed. "O don't lis ten to what I'm saying. I love you. I'll try to be cheerful." D Six more Dollar Line ship cap- she'd be ben times worse the day taina have been formally advised after to-morrow. MA

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STABBING CASE- Waitress Succumbs To Wounds

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