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The wine that had made him mad had maddened those others, also In that hour they were dead to honor With shaht be, they raised their tankards as my lord raised his A stone thrown by so it clattering to the floor and dashing hihter "Cup and lip missed that time!" he cried

The man who had thrown the stone was Jereure, and the wrathful face beneath his shock of grizzled hair; the next he had one

My lord stared foolishly at the stains upon his hands, at the fallen goblet and the stone beside it "Cogged dice," he said thickly, "or I had not lost that throw! I'll drink that toast by ht, when the ship does n't rock like this d--d floor, and the sea has no stones to throw More wine, Giles! To ha back to Whitehall see entleave me this ruby D' ye knohat I had of him last year? I"-I turned and left the door and the house I could not thrust a fight upon a drunkenof his approach, I found beside me the Indian Nantauquas "I have been to the woods to hunt," he said, in the slow ht hied, and to-day I laid a snare, and took hied hiive hiave him none There are times when an Indian is the best company in the world

Just before we reached thedown to the river The night was very dark, though the stars still shone through rifts in the everclouds The Indian and I walked rapidly on,--round, he as noiseless as a shadow We had reached the further side of the lane, when he put forth an arure