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Haward sat down upon a keg of powder, crossed his knees, and, with his

chin upon his hand, looked froure opposite "I ainia, at least,

there is honesty," he said dryly "I will try to reainst the expiry of your indenture In the ry with me who of the wine to earth the other's passion had apparently

spent itself The red slowly left his face, and he leaned at ease against

the cask, dru

froold In the half light

strange and soh the stillness,

beneath the sound of the tattoo upon the cask head, the river made itself

heard

"For ten years and more you have been my--master," said the storekeeper

"It is a word for which I have an invincible distaste It is not

well--having neither love nor friendship to put in its place--to let

hatred die When I cas, Forster that betrayed us at Preston, and Ewin Mor Mackinnon But