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After the second bend the chaussee, just as he anticipated, straightened out and ran clear away between an ever-narrowing double line of poplars to become a bluish blob on the horizon. But of the car nothing was to be seen. For the second time Robin pulled up. He took serious counsel with himself. He estimated that he could see for about three miles along the road.

Mattathias is gone; Solomona and her children are all gone; Judas, with his gallant band, is like a lion at bay with the hunters closing in an ever-narrowing circle around him. Apollonius has been vanquished, Seron defeated by our hero; but now Nicanor and Giorgias, with the forces of Ptolemy, upwards of forty thousand men, are combining to crush him by their overwhelming numbers!

Now it is quite useless to try and ride straight up to a bustard, and this he knew. The only thing to do is to excite his curiosity and fix his attention by moving round and round him in an ever-narrowing circle. Putting his pony to a canter, John proceeded to do this with a heart beating with excitement. Round and round he went; the pauw had vanished now, he was squatting in the tuft of grass.

"Hurry!" exclaimed Bruce, as a gaunt form with patches of brown, and double nose, telling of mixed blood, sprang forward, eager to drag the fresh meat from the fuselage. Instead of firing, the Major beat the beast over the head, and with a snarl he resumed his place in the ever-narrowing circle.

A new commander-in-chief was now before Ostend in the person of Ambrose Spinola, an unknown young Italian, who was soon to prove himself a worthy antagonist for Maurice. Spinola continued the siege of Ostend, where the garrison were being driven inch by inch within an ever-narrowing circle.

A conventional society maiden who has not been fortunate enough to meet and marry a man she loves, or whose fortune tempts her, during the first season or two that she isout,” will in all probability go on revolving in an ever-narrowing circle until she becomes stationary in its centre.

These had been presented to him in as hopeful a light as the imagination of his interested councilors could place them. Now the time had come when he must arouse himself to action. At Orizaba we learned that the Liberals were closing in at every point upon the ever-narrowing empire.

"I turned the knobs every way I could think of," replied Mr. Roumann. "But it would take terrific speed and power to free us from the suction of the whirlpool." Jack moved back to the stern, where the box was, containing the red substance that furnished power to move the boat. He looked closely at it. Meanwhile the boat was moving around in ever-narrowing circles, faster and faster.

Death had no terrors for them. As each man drooped his head upon the earth another was there to take his place; and so the advance was maintained. Noon drew near; the ever-narrowing circle was close upon the farm. There was no sound of voices, only the sharp cracking of rifles, or the ping of bullets whistling through the air as the Indians returned the biting fire of their intended victims.

Eagerly the ponies, bred to the Hunt, stretched their limbs of steel-like toughness, and raced for the brown cloud that fled as a broken regiment. Surely it was wondrous sport, as A'tim thought; surely it was unholy slaughter, as the Outcast Bull muttered. Now the galloping brutes were well between the brush walls of the ever-narrowing stockade.