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As he rolled to the floor he saw the two for about like shadoo red objects that reseraph poles leaped past him from he knew not where, and then there was a shout, the report of a pistol, a horrid yell So heavy crashed down beside hi, he was nuuish crying: "That settles you, damn you!"

Some one lifted his head fro unintelligible He was conscious of an effort on his part to prevent the blood froallantry The sound of rushing feet, shouts, firearained consciousness, he blinked in abject a sound in his ears, and his eyes had a glaze over the off There were persons in the roo As his eyes tried to take in the strange surroundings, a hand was lifted from his forehead and a soft, dreauish See, his eyes are open! Do you know me, Mr Lorry?"

The unsteady eyes wandered until they fell upon the face near his pillow A brighter gleaence He tried to speak, but could only move his lips As he remembered her, she was in white, and he was puzzled now to see her in a garreen of a shady hillside There was the odor of roses and violets and carnations Then he looked for the fatal, fearful, glaring chandelier It was gone The rooer, but it was through anear where he lay So it was daylight! Where was he?

"How do you feel, old man?" asked a familiar voice A rasped his own Still he could not answer

"Doctor," cried the voice near his head, "you really think it is not serious?"

"I am quite sure," answered a ht "It is a bad cut, and he is just recovering fro one his skull would have been crushed He will be perfectly conscious in a short tihness"