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formation which had escaped hihtened to the birth of an idea By heavens! it ht be done! Inch by inch he traced the obscure passage,

seeking to ie

within easy reach of an upstretched ares here and there, the deep gash as though sorowing straight out over the

chasular

and ragged, varied rifts not entirely unlike the steps of a crazy

staircase

The very conception of such an exploit caused his flesh to creep But

he was not of that class of ain and again, led by an impulse he was unable to resist, he

studied that precipitous rock, every nerve tingling to the newborn

hope God helping theh it would test the foot and nerve of a Swiss

ain uneasily toward his coure, the same sober face turned deliberately

away Hampton did not smile, but his square jaw set, and he clinched

his hands He had no fear that she ht fall him, but for the first

tie