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The only person," she went on, as they passed through the outer office and Arnold paused for a moment to take down his hat and coat, "whom I really fear in this world is Andrea." Mr. Weatherley remained for a moment in the chair where she had left him, gazing idly at the counterfoil of the cheque. Then he rose and from a safe point of vantage watched the car drive off.

It was a calm moonlight night with a smooth running sea and a breeze out of the south. Jack threw open the conning tower and climbed into the deck steering station. From his vantage point he had a commanding view of the sea for many miles in every direction and the young ensign reveled in the glories of the night.

Bill was still lost in thought, gazing out upon the perfect scene from the vantage point of the hill upon which his "shack" stood, when round the corner of the house came a half-breed, bearing a large tin pannikin of steaming coffee. He took the pannikin from the man and propped himself against a post which helped to support the roof of the veranda.

"Ha, ha!" laughed Del Fortis, "I understand! Revenge revenge! But in certain cases the briefest description is sometimes the most graphic and startling! Good-day!" Jost returned the salute curtly, and went, not to leave the scene altogether, but merely to take up a position of vantage immediately above and behind the surging crowd, where from a distance he could watch all that was going on.

It was oval, as should be a theatre for any show, with heights around it insignificant, but offering a vantage ground whence could be watched the struggle in the midst. There was a sacred centre an island and a mount and, within the lines, so great a concourse of gladiatorial souls as befits the greatest of spectacles.

Life, it seems, went along tranquilly with him the following winter. As usual he kept his watch and ward on the cliffs by the Red Island Shoals. Then the fatal 10th of April came round. Once again it broke upon the solitary figure of the old man straining his eyes from his coign of vantage on the dread shoals of the Red Islands.

As the man complied with this request, and waddling aft took the tiller, his more active companion sprang into the main rigging and ran rapidly to the masthead, from which point of vantage he gazed back for a full minute over the course they had come. "Not a sign," he shouted down at length. "But hello," he added to himself, "what's that?"

There are many other children waiting to come into the home. And yet " Miss Bell's voice sounded human and unnatural "yet I wish he could stay. Have you thought, Kate, of your responsibility toward him, of " "Oh! Ough!" shrieked Tommy from the playground, in tones of distress. Lovey Mary left her point of vantage and rushed to the rescue.

Then, drawing his figure to its full height, Moses again raised his hands and eyes to Heaven, appealing to the Most High with fervent warmth, and never ceasing in his prayers, which became more and more ardent as time passed on, for the vantage gained by the soldiers seemed lost.

Nay, take the cup of blood-red wine, Our hearts can boast a warmer grow, Filled from a vantage more divine, Calmed, but not chilled by winter's snow! To-night the palest wave we sip Rich as the priceless draught shall be That wet the bride of Cana's lip, The wedding wine of Galilee! Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.