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Breitmann urged this with a gesture of his hands. "There'll be sport," said Fitzgerald. The coffee was cold in the little cups when they returned to it. The cellar, as far as any one could learn, was free from any signs of recent invasion. It was puzzling. "And the servants?" Breitmann intimated. "They have been in the family for years." The admiral shook his head convincedly.

Later, when the lights of the village had disappeared one by one under the tranquil elms, the Doctor returned to the attack. "Take another week to think it over, Herrick," he urged. "Who knows what may happen in a week, eh? Women's minds have been known to change before this, my friend." "Hers won't," answered Wade, convincedly. "Her note left little doubt as to that."

And he understood, at any rate intellectually, that if he could once realize that the dogmas of the Church were the dogmas of the universe; and not only that, but that the world convincedly realized it too; why then, the fact that the civilization of to-day was actually moulded upon it would no longer bewilder him. It was on the following morning that he spoke with the King.

"What does she know?" asked Ignat, smiling. "Everything," replied the boy, convincedly. No wonderful kingdom appeared before him. But often cities appeared on the banks of the river, just such cities as the one where Foma lived. Some of them were larger, some smaller, but the people, and the houses, and the churches all were the same as in his own city.

"Do you want me to drop down dead here with a dull, sickening thud, Ann? "You're not going to drop down dead," she replied convincedly. "You're going to stay here and do whatever it's your duty to do, now you've come into Temple Barholm." "Am I?" he answered. "Well, we'll see what I'm going to do when I've had time to make up my mind.

Out went Steve's hand as he turned. "I'm sorry, Tom," he said simply. "I was a beast." Tom took the hand that was offered and squeezed it hard. "That's all right," he stammered. "So was I." "No, you were right, Tom," answered Steve convincedly. "I hadn't any business suspecting you of a thing like that. And and I want to tell you first that I knew I was wrong a long time ago, before this happened.