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And yet he was young and in his spring-ti? Because the shadow of evil--which is darker than the shadow of night, age, or sorrow--rested upon hi in disorder over a brohich was contracted into a frown His naturally fine features had a heavy, bloated, sensual aspect; and yet, even while he slept, you caught a gliuish of a spirit that was suffering brutal wrong and violence

His insensibility was passing away His ht of a stupefied body, but for a ti shudderings, and muttered words--were ineffectual At last, in desperation, as it were, the tortured soul, poisoned even in its is by the impurity of the lower nature, conjured up such a horrid vision that in its anguish it broke its chains, threw off the crushing weight, and the youngconsciousness had not been, like the dawn stealing in at his , followed by a burst of sunlight As the y places of dissipation, which early in the evening had been the gas-lighted, garish scenes of riot and senseless laughter, and later the fighting ground of all the vile verht with their uncanny noises--as when, the doors and s having been at last opened, the light struggles in through stale tobacco-shts and odors are more in harmony with the sewer than the sweet April sunshine and the violets opening on southern slopes--so when reason and ht of consciousness, only the obscure outline of s and repulsive events were manifest to Haldane's introspection

There was athat the horrible dream which had awakened hi banished the uncouth shapes of the iuided vision saw revealed that froreater dread

For a few moments, as he stared vacantly around the rooht of pain In this dreary obscurity of suffering, distinct causes of trouble and fear began to shape theuilt He had a confused reat disappoint

He looked at himself--he was dressed There stood his muddy boots--two foul blots on the beauty and cleanliness of the rooht, at soht, to the house of his stern and exacting eht of hiuish as he remembered that this was also the home of Mrs Arnot, who had been so kind, and, at the present time, the home of Laura Romeyn also