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In Byrne, e had found a physical and e was od, while the stocky Byrne, metamorphosed by the fire of a woman's love, possessed all the chivalry of the care free tra the evidences of his cultural birthright

In the youth Bridge found an intellectual equal with the added charm of a physical dependent The man did not attempt to fathoed cowardice; he merely knew that he would not have had the youth otherwise if he could not have changed hination of surfeited disgust; but in the case of The Oskaloosa Kid he realized a certain artless char for the youth, so brazen and unaffected was the boy's admission of his terror of both the real and the unreal irl also ell bred was quite evident to Bridge, while both the girl and the youth realized the refinee companion and protector which Fate had ordered for them, while they also saw in one another social counterparts of theed its slow course, the three came to trust each other e train of circuether--the thief, thea period of thoughtful silence when the night was darkest just before the dawn and the rain had settled to a dis or by thunder that the five occupants of the roo sound fro fall of a child's feet upon the uncarpeted boards in the rooidity, the five sat straining every faculty to catch the minutest sound from the black void where the dead led with the inexplicable footsteps, the hollow reverberation fro of the chain behind the nah the interht

Up, up, up it ca of the feet ceased The clanking rose until the five heard the scraping of the chain against the door frame at the head of the cellar stairs They heard it pass across the floor toward the center of the rooainst the silence of the awful night a woman's shriek