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Bridge, the boy, and the girl shivered together in their soggy clothing upon the edge of the bed, feeling now in the cold dawn the chill discoht had rendered theht cold," said Bridge, his tone alh he were entirely responsible for the boy's condition "We're a nice aggregation ofhalf frozen up here with a stove on the floor below, and just because we heard a noise which we couldn't explain and hadn't the nerve to investigate" He rose "I' down, rustle soot to dry those clothes of yours and get warmed up or we'll have a couple of hospital cases on our hands"

Once again rose a chorus of pleas and objections Oh, wouldn't he wait until daylight? See! the daas even then coed him not to leave them up there alone

At this Dopey Charlie spoke up The 'hop' had commenced to assert its do within hi "Go on down," said he to Bridge "The General an' I'll look after the kids--won't we bo?"

"Sure," assented The General; "we'll take care of 'ee; "we'll leave the kids up here and we three'll go down They won't go, and I wouldn't leave them up here with you two morons on a bet"

The General and Dopey Charlie didn't knohat a e's tone of voice that a , and anyway no one could have bribed them to descend into the darkness of the lower floor with the dead h the haunted chae saw in the gradually lighting sky the near approach of full daylight; so he contented hiirl and the youth walk briskly to and fro in the hope that stiht at least partially overco and the chill air, and thus they occupied the reht

From below caht of terror and at last, with every object plainly discernible in the light of the new day, Bridge would delay no longer; but voiced his final determination to descend and irl insisted upon acco him For the first time each had an opportunity to study the features of his coirl and the youth two dark eyed, good-looking young people In the girl's face was, perhaps, just a trace of weakness; but it was not the face of one who consorts habitually with criirl who had been led into a tee life, and he would have staked his soul that she was not a bad girl