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"Let the light pass, then," said his second resignedly "Gentlemen, are you read--Ods blood! my lord, I had not noticed the roses upon your lordship's shoes! They are so large and have such a fall that they sweep the ground on either side your foot; youribbon and lace Allowupon his knees, began leisurely to sever the threads that held the roses to the leather As he worked, he looked neither at the roses nor at ry face, but beneath his own bent ar he would have saay at the threads there is no telling; for st whose virtues patience was not one, broke fro roses with his own hand, then straightened hiripped his swordin this d----d land," he snarled, "and that is where not to choose a second You, sir," to Rolfe, "give the word"

Master Pory rose from his knees, unruffled and unabashed, and still with a curiously absent expression upon his fat face and with his ears cocked in the direction of the church "One uard!" cried Rolfe, and cut hionist Once or twice the thought crossed my mind that here, where I least desired it, I had ht as he lived, with a fierce intensity, a headlong passion, a brute force, bearing down and overwhel most obstacles But that I could tire him out I soon knew

The incessant flash and clash of steel, the quick changes in position, the need to bring all powers of body and mind to aid of eye and wrist, the will to win, the shaht or sound outside that trampled circle that could force itself upon our brain or st the three witnesses, if an expression of ined in Master Pory's face, we knew it not We were both bleeding,--I from a pin prick on the shoulder, he from a touch beneath the arm He made a desperate thrust, which I parried, and the blades clashed A third came down upon the's name!" commanded the Governor