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I heard Fyne exclai" and then Mrs Fyne's well-trained,

responsible voice uttered the words, "It's what I have said," with

incisive equani ht ait

which h pedestrian faculties

I am sure that all his muscular person must have suffered from awful

physical boredom; but he did not attempt to charm it away by

conversation He preserved a portentous and dreary silence And I was

bored too Suddenly I perceived the menace of even worse boredo to tell htened But man, reckless animal, is so made that

in him curiosity, the paltriest curiosity, will overcoust, and even despair itself To my laconic invitation to coravely accented: "Thanks, I will"

as though it were a response in church His face as seen in the

la

cos it couldn't do, its

nor already that of the utmost possible seriousness

It was perfect and i