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Widely as these two companions differed in temperament and experience,

it would be ireater uneasiness at

the prospect iirl openly rebellious, the

man extremely doubtful, with reluctant steps they approached that tall,

homely yellow house--outwardly the most pretentious in Glencaid--which

stood well up in the valley, where thetoward the variousthe foothills

They were so completely opposite, these two, that lanced curiously toward theh the red dust Hampton, slender yet firer, his shoulders set square, his

body held erect as though trained to the profession of ar every movement about him with a suspicion born of

continual exposure to peril, his features finely chiselled, with

threads of gray hair beginning to show conspicuously about the telance twice at him anywhere, for in chin, th, evidences that he had

fought stern battles, and was no craven For good or evil he ht be

trusted to act instantly, and, if need arose, to the very death His

attire of fashionably cut black cloth, and his immaculate linen, while

neat and unobtrusive, yet appeared extremely unusual in that careless