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'Nathless, you must pay for both,' I told hiold button as earnest that he will bring the remainder

of the price before the duel to-morrow That Quaker maiden of whom you ask

hath a soul like the soul of Colna-dona, of who She is fair as a flower after winter, and as tender as

the rose flush in which swims yonder star When I am with her, almost she

persuades er that it

was not I that had the killing of Ewin Mackinnon" He gave a short laugh,

and stooping picked up an oak twig froround, and with deliberation

broke it into many small pieces "Almost, but not quite," he said "There

was in that feud nothing illusory or fantastic; nothing of the quality

that

If I have found that in this latter case I took a wraith and dubbed it

I followed a foe, I followed a friend instead"--He threay the bits of

bark, and straightened hi his breath

"Save for this Quaker family, I have had no friend for many a year! And I

cannot talk to them of honor and warfare and the orld" His speech

was soerness not without pathos