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It must be confessed that there was no little agitation in our camp, and everything was done to give any attacking force a warm reception. We made barricades of the boat, and kept watch all night. We also scoured the valley all round to see if there were any other people about. I must insist, for the credit of our gallantry, that it was not of these three men that we were afraid.

Oh, she's awfully interesting, I'll admit that, and she's as crazy about Rose as any of the rest of us, which is to her credit. "We never got off women all the evening. Barry Lake had their history down from the early Egyptians, and Jim had an endless string of pathological freaks to tell about.

"They were the right ones," she answered tersely. "He ate them." "Ate them? Ate them?" "Ate them all." He stared at her as though he could not comprehend it. "And he he is well?" "He's well." The schoolmaster put his hand to his head. He could hardly credit that anybody could have eaten those mushrooms the devil's toadstool and the fly agaric and remain alive and well.

Any over during which no runs are earned from the bat is said to be a "maiden" over, and is scored to the credit of the bowler as an evidence of good bowling.

The money was now coming due; if the obligations were not met, the credit of Great Britain in this country would reach the vanishing point. Though at first there was a slight misunderstanding about this matter, the American Government finally paid this over-draft out of the proceeds of the first Liberty Loan.

And not only would this bring him credit with his owners, which meant promotion in due course to a larger ship, but in the mean time, as he drew his 2-1/2 per cent, on the profits, it represented a very comfortable matter of solid cash for that much-needing person himself. He hugged himself with pleasure when he thought of this new found prosperity.

Scantily clad, ill fed, without fuel, they have been obliged to pass half the day before the bakers' doors, waiting for their pittance of bread. The mortality and the suffering have been very great among them, and yet, it must be said to their credit, they have neither repined nor complained. Business has, of course, been at a standstill since last September.

By-the-by, don't you want to go to your banker's?" "I will just stroll down with you, and see if they have paid any money in," replied I, carelessly. We called at Drummond's, and I asked them if there was any money paid into the credit of Mr Newland. "Yes, sir," replied one of the clerks: "there is one thousand pounds paid in yesterday." "Very good," replied I.

"That's just what I say: there is no reason why. For the money was donated by your father and you are entitled to the honour as his heir. Honour is just the same as money. With honour a business man will get credit everywhere, and everywhere there is a way open to him.

Then, with money in the funds, a man keeps up his credit to the far end the last thousand telling no more tales than the first, and making just as good a show. We are almost afraid to say what Mr.