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Steve Packard, filling his eyes with the two rows of similar shacks, hesitated briefly. Until now he had always gone to the Packard side; when a boy he had regarded the rival section with high contempt, looking upon it as inferior, sneering at it as a thoroughbred might lift lip at an unworthy mongrel.

She was sneering, but he did not remark it. Her back was to the light. "He would not disclose her name to me. He confessed her to be a dear friend of his." She startled him by laughing, and her laugh was not pleasant. "A very dear friend, you may be sure, you simpleton. What name do you bear?" He restrained his own rising indignation to answer her question calmly: "Moreau.

Perhaps, in the following words, he pictured his own loneliness and utter dejection: I never went into battle; I never was under fire; but I fancy there are some things just as hard to do as to go under fire. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

His brain had already long tormented itself over the obscure words of the Psalmist, and with a great effort he had striven to blot it out of his memory, and now the words danced again before his weary eyes, growing larger and larger. Those confusing black signs seemed to become a sneering doubt hovering round him: "A thousand years are but as a day in Thy sight."

"It seems you love that whelp, that thing that was my brother," he said, sneering. "I wonder will you love him still when you come to be better acquainted with him? Though, faith, naught would surprise me in a woman and her love. Yet I am curious to see curious to see." He laughed. "I have a mind to gratify myself. I will not separate you not just yet." He advanced upon her.

A gloomy wood by night has terrors for the bravest, and it was only the certainty that she was leaving girl-life chaperons, waltz-tunes, and bitter sneering, for ever that gave courage to proceed.

He had sympathized with him in the vague difference with the quartermaster. He had had to listen to sneering things Burleigh was telling the aide-de-camp about young linesmen in general and Dean in particular, stocking the staff officer with opinions which he hoped and intended should reach the department commander's ears. The engineer disbelieved, but was in no position to disprove.

Ah! reader! could those old walls reveal the sounds, the tales of human suffering, of heartless avarice, and callous indifference of sneering assumption and hopeless woe, thy brain would be as fire, thy heart would sicken, and thy blood would boil, till rushing over every prudent thought, through grinding teeth and passion-paling lips would start, the one wild word, Revenge!

He would have given much to have seen the galloping, tumultuous thoughts, which, chaotic at first, became as orderly as heaven at their master's wish. Impatient at a silence promising to be interminable the Russian agent coughed suggestively. Kolinsky, with leisurely indulgence, looked up while the sneering smile deepened the lines about his mouth. The face of his vis-

He laughed again, the same ugly sneering laugh of triumph, "That was why I was so particular about the wording of that bill of sale I would rather have her than the whole bunch of field hands." "You believe then the girl has never been freed either she, or her mother?" "Believe? I know. I tell you I never play any game with my eyes shut." "And you actually intend to to hold her as a slave?"