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The casual visitor to the Grand Cañon first of all takes the rim drive; then he essays Bright Angel Trail, which is sufficiently scary for his purposes until he gets used to it; and after that he grows more adventurous and tackles Hermit Trail, which is a marvel of corkscrew convolutions, gimleting its way down this red abdominal wound of a cañon to the very gizzard of the world.

The sudden recollection of this fact made him cast such a glance of scrutiny at the gentleman as to quite discompose him. "What's the old man up to, gimleting me in the eye like that? He's got something up his sleeve," thought Mahr. "I wonder did she ever corner him?" was the question uppermost in Gard's mind.

We all sat cross-legged round our meal, and all Laupahoehoe crowded into the room and verandah with the most persistent, unwinking, gimleting stare I ever saw. It was really unpleasant, not only to hear a Babel of talking, of which, judging from the constant repetition of the words wahine haole, I was the subject, but to have to eat under the focussed stare of twenty pair of eyes.

Neither reached for it. Standing there with the cynical smile still on his lips, his strange eyes gimleting them with a cold sort of laughter, it was as if Breault tortured them with a last horrible joke. Then, suddenly, Nada seized the envelope and tore it open, while McKay stared at Breault, believing, and yet not daring to speak.

"Son," he exclaimed, gimleting Wilbur with his contracted eyes; "I have reemarked as how you had brains. I kin fool the coolies, but I can't fool you. It looks to me as if that bark yonder was a derelict; an' do you know what that means to us? Chaw on it a turn." "A derelict?" "If there's a crew on board they're concealed from the public gaze an' where are the boats then?

Blake's eyes, gimleting to her soul, were shot with a sudden fire as he, too, leaned a little over the table. But his voice was unemotional as rock. It merely stated a fact. "That's why Captain Rydal allowed himself to be frozen in," he said. "He had plenty of time to get into the open channels, Mrs. Keith. But he wanted you. And to get you he knew he would have to lay over.

This mode of argument was nothing more than digging the hard knuckles of his large hand into the ribs of his opponent we should rather say gradually gimleting, as it were, a hole in your side as he heated in his illustrations.

"This here campoody of yours ain't a terrible bad place to be right bow, Poke, old scout. Not a bad place a-tall." "You said twice, she was nice," put in old man Adams, his bleary, red rimmed ferret eyes gimleting at the stage driver. "But you ain't said who she was? Now..." Hap Smith stared at him and chuckled. "Ain't that jus' like Adams for you?" he wanted to know. "Who is she, he says!

The baroness dictated the letter slowly, with an eye gimleting her daughter all the time. "Dear Monsieur Riviere." The pen fell from Rose's hand, and she turned red and then pale. "What! write to him?" "Not in your own name; in mine. But perhaps you prefer to give me the trouble." "Cruel! cruel!" sighed Rose, and wrote the words as requested. The baroness dictated again,

Neither reached for it. Standing there with the cynical smile still on his lips, his strange eyes gimleting them with a cold sort of laughter, it was as if Breault tortured them with a last horrible joke. Then, suddenly, Nada seized the envelope and tore it open, while McKay stared at Breault, believing, and yet not daring to speak.