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A NAMELESS HERO, They wors bath cideollere, as the Northern Paoite Station, which they sorral, and baan bill for the use of Fort Fletcher, two miles way sorcas the prairie, and they had been ap- pointed at the request of the mamanding efficar, The snow had begun to fall before they went to bed, but the thermomaster stood at degree which was most satisfactory to won who possessed nitid eupply of fual and as acertato prospect of getting more. There had bon na wud, and the telegraph opæentor told the station master, while they Ballared their nightly greg, that a mill a snow could not prevent the arrival of the nega ing train-an, arrival of earious importate to tbem, as the company provisioned its smaller posts from wiek to week (not over-liberally), and heir next ratione were due. To which asser tion the station waster, being a man of maneh longer pins in Montano, and perhaps consequessly inclined to pessimistio viowa, had answered that he was not clover at guessing
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Don't yon bs too thankful yet! We way all three ba as hail or worse, before we can talk about safety."Brown answered gringly. But we will do the best we can for you, oon to an other drink of whisky, though there is mighty little left you can tell us your story.".
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pity and asement. You will not wand your mouthful that I can custoh from another stayving hostess was cleared up at broakfast when in re pietnia with a 107 poor chap, thongh you will wan Therdags craskere to keep over to-mor-ply to the usual hoss that he had plant 1, ha med probly, or avors thing dla if this hilsward row for two two will all at this bit of supper gaan noviant & his midnightvisitor. Ves don't belter som
haforo pa sek the Lord's plansuis for the three male. Cobb, por use that remit we m avoid doing so, for our frietis prà sometime The bit the stranger whisperdatu
The meal van estra in silenion Ther the resided by the apparition of the draudial-wo- while his eyes grew wistful. I tried usuá
stranger lore a couple of leaves from note we committed a murder in that route. light. You val me?"
book of Fations lagtha palling them fu Na shokun suster of ours, but she begane tobacco-poach which was hung on a corner of psd of this proparly by the murder of the ja ti ohill who was the only obstucie the dresser, and from which they agreed tha! each man should draw a lot in turn according to to ber inlriting the estates. This the manag ago. For a moment they plused; Brown and ed by sling the child's puts on a factions Val pale through their weather ton, the atrange cem, at during bar absoby sa stringled My story the other repeated with a queer with fast fosh lingsing his white face. The the heir, but so akitufy that trains of twist of bis pale lips; and when they had half-three pairs of eyer ust each other stendfamily foul hy weg ismerni, and hathing would pompeiled him as far as the only ansy chair in Let us-peny." cried Brown, and dropped azon have ben of the arins if du hed; ot the place, ho lagan not to relate bnt to question. his know fallow, and their guest, after oufed it in how death-bid pey handskar 11 a[ •| Men in eo treatening a predicameût an has instant's hesitation, best his dark bord.
Was it life that each asked in silanes of bi-chat Will she appear again, do you lists are willing enough to expatiate upon Ita details, and thy put the situation very vividly (tod? Or among the thran di pesoul sterk inquired the artistetail she will and about thò sana taman," an the reply. before him without pressing for the Estory of a acaler petition F
Brown rose and thrast a grim that in the as the guest of Mr. Easton ho was furished his adventure. It was some mahtie shingo of expression in bis dark eyes, as Val, who had been ponch. The tip which he withdrew was se long with hop, the light of blah was kept a the chit taltor, ceased spanking, which caused that there oond to an doabt that his lot was tony as ghe, and with a toriule Brown to say with a laugh thay was not mercy: romain. Ils lips quivered under hin gray reus by the lost it he laid himself down in bed an Val (ho telegraph operator's name was Tules." You don't think you have quite so much to be taobe, but he neither spoke or glanced at his head sight, but not to sleep The appari tine, but the North-roat has no time for prly grateful for at yon ld a while ago."
companions, while the stranger's slender fingers tion appeared and conductes itself actally as it syllabios, Tal-woke frat, seke slept lightly from
That you to willing to make privation more awfly song their fate; the lip me mich did on the pelos sight; and, it ghosts are the habit of onsing at any call of his machine entire, a to bring starvation nearer for aty shorter. Then, with a band that shok, visilyapable of supras. the must experienced A Must that seemed blown by old Boreas himself sake, does ret appear to me a rea for fa-Val drew forth tiny soraptraginally brief. th seuation when Easton, sitting up it bod, was shaking the trail frame nikling, the ill-fit gmtitudo," the ranger answered with a smile, as the fataro, which had stratebad so far before vid. or your pardon, matiem; I am ou ar. ting windowa were rataling, and the brisk which, swiftly as it passed, warmed the hearts of his five-and-tmnty years, was sucklealy bocemo! titt pou allow me to make a sketch of you! draught drove the ashes of a burnt-out fire the others as out. Then very briefly ho told
Henk into a obair beside him gazing ny at I shot than convince so ptics of the truth a through the opon damper of the store as he ta them that at started on horseback alone from these two others, from abom distanc, 100-pices of "but before the request was match to discover how long it would be until ranch which he did not name) just before wide for clear seeing, scorned anddonly to dizidepleted the o'd lady. Falshed as before. Tho dawn is watch had just shown him that it the now had begun to fail on the previous him, and smiled. "It is all right, be beard artist found bis living child-sisters more auen was 'clock, when a crash, which sounded night and tint when the wind rosa he had himself saying with a dim sense of satifactionable than the dead: He progressed rapidly nud araoty over his boad, caused him inalinatively been no further from the station than the that, whatever lamentations were clamouring, in scossfally with his work, and the airtely apeth of time. to dodge among his pillows, There was no marcet railway, culvert, sono 20 yards away. bis heart, lips were uttaring words which had pearance of the sandoras ofel a retentivo This culvert did not open to the direct swoop the momblance of courage in them. "I've a memory to produce a fait resemblance of what plaster to be mattered in that pine-coiled room, and when the clatter was presently merged in of the storm, and for several hours had proved better hope of getting through the snowdrifts to the solonely declared to me saw, for seven the roar of the wind, he decided that the roof tolerable shelter for himself and his horse; but-Fletcher than an old man or a sick man, is epito nights on which fie cempied the hand has was still safe though the chimaey must have at length the mal, impatient with coll and of my game leg." And he grasped his oratol. fallon.
hanger, and frightened by the increasing up"You don't leave this house until daylight."
One Rowmasian gustas has the merit of being, He knocked on the partition between las bed rour, id aoped from his hold and made off Brown barst yet will a sport that badly laid asob, and the station muster. Brown! Are you
Baron the preria. For s cumple of hours longer at he sog aralmart arm over Val's shoulders, peculiar, Princess Mucts of Einburgh, on sleep?" he cried,
he had in mind, antil, realizing that this.refage "Your prospecte-and the weather may dear entry into the main will be mut. Why don't you ask if I'm dead ?"
was becoming a special danger from the con- befare moralug the stranger said, withdraw by a dopntation of Roumanian peasants, who will This is a blizzard. I guess.”
ulation drifted into it by a clangs is ing a glance which the goang fellow Falt bad ofar the "jont of weiccus" This lofTM the wind, he had dosporately stumbled ont upon sounded the santkows of bis okeeriness..
which the young Princes (woording to tru- You are a clear gene."
With Httle more talk they settled then-dition, is obliged to taste. is a port of cake comi Yal laughed In spite of having lost a leg in the open wash; had only after wanderings that his first Indian campaigns, and of the suffering seemed eadiem to bis failing strength bad he made selves for the night, though by facit agres-pos of pigeon, gulio. honey, and oraherd Brawn indeed hirient beans, baked on wood indors. A little and charge of career the low had entailed. he is way to do Bights, which, through she went nobody weat, to bui still possed a light heart and a rather bootshiftiar edycf the blissard, he saw tomb from fidgeted for some time, barring a better of it probably goes a long way Tees Lamour, the gift of his youth and his Irish between the thinks of the closed shutters at the orery few minutes for an anxious gasp at the blood, bet i have a holiday ho called pre-slation, of whose mear righbourhood he had obnoooutside; thereby admitting guats of sunw sently, so the house shivered in another feruos ignorant. Who he was he did not tell his and wind most unwelcome in a room whoso tem- embrane of the storm. The telegraph pola busts, nor did they ask him, as they watdied him perters had boon reduced below freezing point.
It is ne simple matter to stato in teras at all with a curiosity, which the mengreness of his by forty-eight bones of firolesauces. Bat. Val will be down if this lasts all day !"
"A watched precise what forces are direct's confceted with All day retoed the other gloomily. "Tetory had by Le tenue satisfied. He shut his presently ented these invasions.
the production of bule and happy old age. not worrying about telegraph poles, but about eyes, as us fished speaking, and lay back it pot never boits, old chop," he exclaimed affection- how long the next train will be looked. There the big arm-dai with bis dark brows drawn toately, looking op Eron a letter he had hoes to More certainly is involved in the procese thou ain't thing to eut in this shebung except a gaugether in a form of pain. That he was a gentle write; and Brown, with a great, aanted bizelf mere strength of constitution. Hosity sur of corned beef, half a loaf of bread, and part of man they both decided with no instinctive glanes ne the other side of the table, nad disappeared rondlags, tentment, and, teate and regalar babiis are most rujan ble nitle. Hun trom žiį slender,though musonlar hands, to their
From the big arr-chair. which their guest work, long al fons, as it is not carried beyond Val began to whistle notil, realising that to bawa lalwart ist, and a gantiemny who hizo fuil to the ollar of his fur overcont. en effectual method of expressing disagreeable ed to find in the West the fortans he had coms still cespied, two dark ages contemplated Val the limit geessary to permit of the dimuly surprise amit such superior efforts of the wind, there to soels toy decided with equally silent bending over his paper. That letter essa low repair of worn tissues, is not only harmless bul bo shouted anderfelly. We shall have lese timoussaimity, they contrasted his well-cut, though business, and chilled fingers and is in the ink a conducivo enemmstuc. 11, in fact. by to be hungry the mere we sleep and, drawing shabby clothes with their own rough-and-ready wore not its only delays. He was re signent living as far as possible s life lu accordinace with
eoribe, this young telegraph operator, where dis-atum hew that we may expret fre reap th the Mankets over his ears, he applied himself to dress seeking bis remedy with an assiduty which Histories ad mysterica, however, are common patchca bad rarely reported more than the more-appropriate all in its prolongation. Great enough in Montana, and the hospitality of the ments of tratos; and the anws he had to tell erre should be taken to protect the systers promptly earned its coward.
The tardy daylight was creeping in through prairis is as questioning as that of tho dort would not disguise itself that his own miery, giust the chours which die makes here- the soy chinks of the shutters when he awoke Brown ross, brought the solitary can of cornet and the heartbreak of her to whom he wrote, fa; couing wears casis its shadows before it If he had ever been at wes be well lav omheef and the last auf from the cupboard, would not store at him from between the lis nad iutistes its sparouch by veriona signs, m When at length the task was failed, hoses fouling of genial werliness uenigic pins, paret the atmosphere of und, with which head, having fivided three rirally qual portions, Pas surrounded, to a gale in the rigging; but be carefully pat away the remainder, and an observent opas mer hira rais his hand and hsten more as headaches, and rising of our wind fr le possessed no measure of comparison in his ex- nounced supor. With the quiescence of niter to the strieking of the storm, which must have the strach barkache and humbago, fattura al pariros, for though he had known something exhaustion, their guest accepted his share of the sounded as bis own sealence of doom, for her sirility i grasinal dignution of mental powe of blizzards during a previosa winter in Montana ranty meal, and allowed Brown to help him to was no hint of lessening in it. He took his cricband similar symptons, all tend to show that hurriedly and made a couple of stapa toward one general debility is increasing in the patiente be and at that fine been roofed and walled with bed in 139 c. rom.
"Jast deadbeat Val exclaimed, as his friend of the windows, and then passed with a grace at rystem. Such persons should take notice of the in the stalwart defozess of Fort Fletcher, a very
"Botxprience of rs. C. Whittington, 11, Coventry different senstruction from the Bimsy shouty rejoined bit. Lucky that he got a ginges of the quiet garns of ate companions
the chinks in these shutters-wonderfully lacky wake done 13 Browa," be wuttered. "My Place. Senth Melbourne, ko for voren gaars which was his present shelter.
ing will be awfully hard for him when tau tima ras cflicted with bxcessiva urvous protrition, Brown-outered as hows lifting the window bronch 820. miss of snow!"
Not mole look for us. Brown replied, come."
and who writes:-"1 busa beun suffering over Bash preparatory to antarring the chutter. Hold ba?" be cried."Do you want to let the
Why, what do you think him f ad thing insule F
That don't concern as while he te frozen and fouise What does concern so and you in, that slita rations for two of us, if this bligand lands forty-eight hours, means starvation for free of a side or thirty-six!"
“a box of erekers !**
"Do you mean the blitaardp" Val gasped, breathless with even his half a moment
struggle.
I mean the betray breeze that has been Log, ing with your early!" the other snswered with a grim grio. as Vul dashed the snow ont of his eyes and hair. Crackers and whisky for break. fust, when you have put on roue warmest clothes," he added, as be returned to the living room. "I daren't make a fire, even anongh for of coffee, with the top of the chimney Through that long day the men kept close within the little room, whose obil dimness was
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He went back to his chair, lingeringly kissing four years viti naises in my head, caused by a the lottar he had written, and stretch.or his right a few days after coineen. Dudeg arms over the table, laid his head on them. For the whole of this time the least excitement would get a while longer to stirred occasionally with matte pe very persons, and it was with great signs which his watcher guessed. But at last difficulty that I could do my houselipid work he lay motionless, sleep, as men rotate and and have scarcely ever had a proper night's THOMSON'S brong of Lern and health, are slept the night rest, wing contually disturbed wit's terrible before a death whom certainty was more hope dreams. I tried maty relies and was sist muter medical treatment, bat outling did any less than that for which a waited.
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Tarsilonce-such silence as unde the bowling tempest outside sannd to Val's Carilling eas like the clamour of walrea enger? for, their pey. He was hungry, he was cold, he wired; for an instant be turned on low; softly the stranger ross, sad, lighting sick as enfronted that dark figure at which another which stood ready, returned as softy to sarah's boldst eyes cannot look nudismayed; his place.
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I was not until the clock of the chimney.at Clemente Tonic dros ull Unt is claimed for hou foon te face with it. He held out bis hand pisos pointed to fro that he race again. low it, and recommend it to all come in contact to rowu will laugh at war almost natural.ly he battoned his Ear coat-thea pánsed for it, sufurieg su 1 hars doce." - Cleaner's they wand their cold fugera. During the old 's confedhe oris as they moment, looking about the ahebby 2, and Tape is sold everywhere. Ollous and Labors- formoon they had burned two lamps, bnt as 9 clasped each other's chill for Sock a bufrom the barly figure of Browe to Vul on figures. 12, estamos; delbourne, nul at
rimits in the crunot lost much longer. Fot. Famosa the table, Not no like patled Sydney. o'clock atrack, with rather an increase thau an abatement of the stora, Brown extinguished one to-bed fox to or three beurs, then i'll take my either of them," he murmared. Nor is this taru, and hy beakfast time there will be sach a the proper hackground for the conversion of a "Why" asked Val.
jolly sun shing that we can at the whole of winner. And yet There came a light over the worn white face and the haggard dark eyes our supplies it one meal!".
Without Tong overfed, anyhow" Brown glorifying them wandrously. prambled ; but he agreed to the phit, and below said," "Lot us pray!! | tweeu watching and sleping they got through the night.
We are low down in our supply, and I would rather have little light-than no light in this bodiem.""
Do you thick it will blow teneb langer Pr "I've known some of its kind that have bowled and hosted for doar upen a week.”
Val graped his oratol and etroda to the door, but the siker interposed Lia burly figure with unwonted agility.
"Come, come, lad. This is too oarly in the business to lose your wits!" he exclaimed, with a grip that was like a kindly vise.
*Flatebir is only two miles ——
Which means too far!" Brown interrupted, panning with a cheary atrocity that deserved aspect in the circumstances. Foo far for my Esic of legs, and all the arithmetis beyond your one. See bar, youngster, we will bave a game of sards and-and it ain't against my conscience to play for quarters if that will keep your Epirits up 1"
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Bix hours later the blizzard was endal and before the san, which had shone radiantly all that aftorpoon, tad sank in a olondbess west, help had oorne to the imprisoned mon at the station help that, on its road from Fort Pletoker, bad found is a snowdrift, of which bis pale celties seemed a part, the body of the The young officer in ocmand of the res ous party gosing down on the stili beauty of the face, said gravely: This is the man the Sheriff has been hunting ever since that Inst booting row in Banith Cily; the 'Grand Duke' they call him, and the most reckless daredevil in tontana. Then, Iralf to himself, be mutter- od, while his tugors went mechanically to his op: What a sailo the poor chap
a battle.”—Maemilian's though he had won Magazine.
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The mening breke with less exor falling; bus with a mind as high and even more bitter than it had been during the provints twenty four hours, and with the prophecy of further saow written in the low, lesden oleads at which the man tock cautious peeps through a half-opan shatter. To stempt to cryss the frozen and drifting two miles of chans between them and Fort Flatelor romained a more obvious and or tain danger than to wait where they were.
Breakfie, pot seaner than last night's sp. par, was quickly disposed of, and then the two who were at home made themselves such so Tac congestion meant much for this old "bine cupations as they could flod in soma small boss light," under whose rule, as Corporal in barracks keeping. Their gubat and managed to rise end and as marter in the station, parda, except for dress willant help, but ho was manifestly, the "rigour of the game, were forbidden as a though silently, suffering greatly from yester aware of vatan, but it was one which Val, feeling | day's expesite and the bitter frostinses of the buch bis endurance and his wagenicity appeal-fireless r When the others resumed their ed to, would not accept. They comprocised card playing is rather cartly refused to join in again I cannot spoet of likozess. having no ac orantly upon a harmless rubber of whist with it, and coalinued to lie in a big chair, wrapped in quintance with anything of the kiud To bis double dummies, which agree.bly diversified his for cas, either sleeping or desiring to spring day I believe my old frisul persisted in auch reading no was possible in a library that pese so.
the truth of his story, which was as follows: consisted of Brown's Bible, a voluine en com · The slow bangry hours passed, growing slowey He was asked by letter if he would undertake the pay drill, and Val's well-thumbed telegraphin and hurger as the transient, lessering of the manual.
storm vansaed in a frosh noression of violeros, Chaps have been frosam stiff between their The dock hat struck 6 when Brown brenght hand hair barn when they are gone to out the last of the capped meat and a few ble tood their cattle in just sob a mass of now sa cuits, and bade the quiet figura in the chair to this," the elder man said ifter`u time, while ko take Eis sharo.
shuflod for a now deal "Nothing but praicio I'm hungry," was the reply, without croktarea can live in a blizzard; and when there the lifting of the hoary eyelids. Lord withdraws the scourge from us there will "Oh yes you are," Brown answered roughly. Le many a poor bosat of a buffalo and prairie He would do bie duty unflinchingly, but the dog-what's that?"
grave to oval its histerners was not in bim. That was & de sound, Hiinat amid the The moulful you ate this morning ain't shrieks of the storm and the cracking of the snob tesatisfy any man; lab abs that you Lenge timbers' from intense aald. It was a low · were famided hafora! ory, vary near to have reached them throngh How much food have you in the ins?" sacha tumult of sound--s ory which both men the strange sako, sitting upright and looking knew ortinatively was not uttered by any with Imperions keenness at the old acidiar. storm-driven animal.
As match again for breakfast." "After inst P
"Not a bromb. The company provisions as by tho west, and the week was out yesterday."
Their guest rose to his foot and buttoned his fur coat, this the others watched him silently. then he lifted his cap from the dressor. You
ME. EASTON AND THE GHOST,
The second in the portrait of a Ghost
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miniature portraits of some children, whose parents rejoiced in the name of Cabb, or HTDE thing like it, and who lived in an old bones in remote country placo: The Cobbs would be delighted to wesivo him as a vigilor; be might be masured of a hospitable reception, and a room with a good light for his work. My friend ar- rived at a nodded burse of great antiquity, truly a treasurs of a place to an artist, as la described
it, with its mallioned windows, a inner courtyard, with quaint gasler, tall chimneys, and the rest of it. The Cobbs wars charming people. the children pretty, and apparently tractable, and the benso quite fall of company, to full that an bedroom only was available to the artist. aston noticed a wrelerious sort of muttering be worn his heat and bostess, of which he overheard the worda "can't be helped—there's no other,” which he countrava rather unfavourably in respect of the salebrity of his apartment; but in reply to his inquiry about dampness, &c., be vis aur od that he had nothing to fear os that score, The dinder left nothing to wish far; the com pany was congenial, the wines, of which, as al
Val sprang upward, forgetting bis eratob, and, an be dropped helplessly book, Brown bur riedly married the lump into the telegraph office, whence a broad beam of light fell across the large room, and where the onslaught of the wind which would follow the sparing of the door, might possibly not extinguish it.Now. Val," have fed de mud rosted me, and I thank you," ways, he was very spacing, were parfaét, god be ord, sit Lore behind the door sad pash he said gely. But I cannot permit you to the artiet retired to his room somewhat fati against it when I undo the bolta; so, it we are share your baɛt arust with me,”
gued by kia journey, but nuly saflsiently m lucky, it will not be blown froin. Ita bingen. What are yon going to do about it?" Brown to make bie bad fore than umally welcomas. AL!
interrupted, folding his arms on the table beside Before testing its qualities, hogever, to examin The door esped from his hold with a violence the untad sapper; sturdy frontierstuns heed the avoient room. The bed was a hage ersation with funeral feathers crowning, pack abiob just failed to upset Val, whose unscular was, he tumbled visibly frame was woll braged, white Brown fell on his I am going to see it my luck in finding of the four posts. It stond opposite to a desplace kom in nowilling homage to the majesty of sheltar will be 48 gont to-night as it was let of high and quaint construction, with a silver the hurrianne-which-rub-apon them, disging night-and-at-lee met to my heata-1 bed, fire-dog on ocelide of its opposite to two before it the body of a man who pitokod forward guiling. ts he turned toward the drer.
door, and to the left of the chinny pices, beyond the throal old and lay motionless.
But Val, arutek and all, spraig hefore him, was an oriel window, through which the Brown leaped to Val's side, and the next mo- dashing the amp from bie grasp. Do you take moon shone brightly enough ment the two stood pasting, with their backs us for murdarers Phe cried Yoz, who are the tenant of the room to disingaish pretty scalast (be closed door, gazing at the prostrato so weak that you can scarcely stand, how far do clearly all the objects in it. Easton was soda in fguro. Val mored arst, and knooling, turned you think you would get out there? it down bed, and simust as soon asleep, to be presently the heavy shoulders and head to look down into again, and if death is coming to us, lai us most awoke by a strange intruder, who stood at the the death-like sc Hu had seen men die in it with our consol nece," with which he himself font of his bad in the full light of ils moon, în that Indisa fight whisk had marred his own life, sank on the nearest chair and broke into sudden the form of an elderly lady, who was apparsally but death had not then muiltan him with the ba
wringing her hands, and with eyos cast down compassion which ita iasga now stirred in his And y Donscience?" maru.arol fho strang was searching for something on the door. Foul heart. He is dend?" he gasped.
er, his hos lingering half-win: Exlly half-ing that a mistake bad been mede, the artist
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"I gun not," the other answered, lifting doubtfuly upon Vel's bowed figure. Then up in his bad and said "I beg your one of the elinched, loy hands. "And if he is, ourious 1ght flashed into his eyes "See bere 1" pardon, madam, hat you have wiatahan your roungster, you and I sin't so much better off Et exclaimed with a thrill in bis voice, that was mom." Tas strange visitor made no reply: ihat you need leok en dosporais pitiful' Bat not alwistler eruotion, nor yet entirely a meor. and on closer inspection, to is great sur- he looked pitiful enough himself, in spite of ble If your soum of duty will uut permit you to prise, Easton found the lady to be in the roughnees, ss, Gading no paies, he begin to open sand away, and wine will not allow me to dress wera s handired and fifty years ago, and the fur coat and inner garments. Bring the remain, here is yet no onel for barolos. Fair perfectly transparent, for he could distinctly whisky Le mattered presently, as ble fingersplay unsettle the matter. We will draw lots." trace this form of the fireplace through the body found the faint brating heart for which bo was Val Jilted bis hand, Brown rose ta his foot, of the gure he also raugaised the Indy as searching. Cheer up, Val! He's alive, and we their gust confronted hora-theus brilliant exactly resembling one of the musical poa will not let King Blizzard bave him this time!" eyes of lis questioning their souls.
traits be bud soos in the picture gallery befors It was after a long twdf.heur of vigorous rub This blizzard may fust vorul daye longer," dinner. Those reflections had scars lyps bing and many s latutation on the absence of he contined, with the sagartoss ich had new. through his mind when the tady, with look of ire; hot daunel, and nearly all the necessities for ly come to bin. There is barely food erongh terrible dospair in her faos, nessed writing her rosuscitation that the stranger stirred, sighed, to keep fe in two, certainly not enough to lands, stemǝd to be abarhed in the usulight, sad opened Als eyes Very big and binec.and miatal three beyou to-morrow, in such ex and disappeared through the window. AVCH,” bewildered they stared up out of bis white face haunting cokt as this. Shall not one die matberid Eton to himelf, not having experiment and the frat glum that came into them was not three? Aul shall not obarco decide which one the slightest sensation of far, “bat's a ghost of thankfulness but of defianoy, as one shaking of P
if over there was ouv. I wish to gelas 1 he wen hand fumbled at his boll.
What you may has common-sense in it, and had a sketch of her "I've taken them away" Brown answered the Lord, not obrica, will order the lot." Brown fast asleep again. The mystery of the unver that look and gostare with a grin of mingled answerel Ecarely. But it is only my very laat nation of the previous night between lust and
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