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Setting to work again, he pushed to the heavy shutters "You'll find the,--selling clothing

that I may not wear, wine that I may not drink, powder and shot that I iving pride, manhood,

honor, heart's blood"-He broke off, shot to the bar across the shutters, and betook himself in

silence to the other here presently he burst into a fit of

laughter The sound was harsh even to savagery "Go your ways,

Saunderson," he said "I've tried the bars of the cage; they're too

strong Stop on your "

The overseer gone, the s barred, and the heavy door shut and locked

behind him, MacLean paused upon the doorstep to look down upon his

appointed co,

was striking at sohtly,

delicately, and often The so was a lizard, about which, as it lay

in the sunshine upon the log, he had wrought a pen of leafy twigs The

creature, darting for liberty this way and that, was met at every turn by

the steel, and at every turn suffered a neound MacLean looked; then

bent over and with a heavy stick struck the thing out of its pain

"There's a tion," he said coolly

"Playtih, and Isaac and the oxen h Up with you!"