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for her

"Then you must obey orders more faithfully next time A man was shot

dead by a stray bullet not three feet above your head"

She paled, and her eyes fell before his stern gaze, which did not

deceive her at all, for she read the unspoken agony of his thought

"I ah I

shall be more careful in future, but because some one has suffered

Who is it? Not one of our own people, I hope?"

"A fireman; I think his naret his loss exceedingly It must have been the merest

accident"

The captain of the Kansas was certainly preoccupied, or he would

never have failed to inquire the extent of Joey's injury Nor would

either he or Elsie have forgotten that Christobal was not "one of our

own people," though the girlof the phrase

The Spaniardof Courtenay's solicitude for Elsie's

well-being, nor of her shy confusion By operation of the occult lahich governs static electricity, it was possible that thebetween those two coht be, Christobal was under no sort of doubt that,

unless another "accident" intervened, he had lost all chance of winning

this woman's love