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I was properly proud of that shot, and despite his loud talk I felt a sort of pity for Harding. "Is that considered a fairly good shot?" he asked. "It was a good one for Smith, or for that matter for anyone," replied Carter, who was a bit sore that he had fallen down. "It looks easy for me," calmly declared Harding stepping up to the tee. "Can you make as high a pile of sand as you want to?"

It was agreed at the rectory that the archdeacon should go over with him and assist at the reading desk, and that Mr. Harding should take the archdeacon's duty at Plumstead Church. Mrs. Grantly had her school and her buns to attend to, and professed that she could not be spared, but Mrs. Bold was to accompany them.

A farm wagon drove up the circular roadway which surrounds the club house, and the owner after glancing doubtfully about approached us. He was tall, angular, and whiskered. "Can any of you folks tell me if a man named Hardin' hangs out 'round this here place?" he said, squinting at a card which I instantly recognised. "I'm Harding," said that gentleman, walking toward him.

When Estelle Harding becomes an inmate of this house I shall pack my valise, and start to Tromso! She approaches like Discord, uninvited, armed with an apple or a dagger. I am perfectly willing to share my fortune with her, but I'll swear I would rather prowl for a month through the plague-stricken district of Constantinople than see her domesticated here!

On the second trip Divine and Theriere each carried a burden up the cliffs, Miller and Swenson following with Barbara Harding, and as they came Oda Yorimoto and his samurai slunk back into the shadows that their prey might pass unobserving. Theriere had the bulk of the loot hidden in a rocky crevice just beyond the cliff's summit.

Cyrus Harding expected to find it in its place; supposing that the convicts; would have crossed it, and that, after having passed one of the streams which enclosed the plateau, they would have taken the precaution to lower it again, so as to keep open a retreat. At length an opening in the trees allowed the sea-horizon to be seen.

Cyrus Harding and Neb, who had become very uneasy at the bad weather and the prolonged absence of their companions, had climbed at daybreak to the plateau of Prospect Heights, and they had at last caught sight of the vessel which had been so long in returning. "God be praised! there they are!" exclaimed Cyrus Harding.

But even Harding had admitted that no race had taken to religion quite so seriously as the Celt. The Druids had put aside the oak leaves and put on the biretta. There had never been a religious revolution in Ireland. In the fifth and sixth centuries all the intelligence of Ireland had gone into religion.

Call up there now and see if you can get Villa to send help he ought to protect you from Pesita. I understand that there is no love lost between the two." Anthony Harding went at once to the telephone and rang for the central at Cuivaca.

"Ah," said Mr. Blake, "I think I should like to see that library. You know I have theories about libraries as well as about plays. Is this a nice one?" "Of course," said Betty. "Everything at Harding is nice. Don't you think so?" Mr. Blake shook his head uncertainly. "I hardly feel competent to speak of everything yet, Miss Wales." "Well, how about the moral tone?" inquired Betty demurely.