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Before Haldane could pass fro quietly at the door, each dexterously seized one of his hands with such an iron grasp that, after a ave up, conscious of the hopelessness of resistance

"If you will go quietly with us ill employ no force," said the man in uniforht steel manacles were produced "These men are officers like myself, and you see that you stand no chance with three of us"

"Well, lead on, then," was the sullen answer "I will go quietly if you don't use those, but if you do, I will not yield while there is a breath of life in me"

"A most desperate and hardened wretch!" ejaculated the reporter, sopping his strea nose

With a dark look and deep malediction upon his eentle raal process had not worked ss had been said to hi of his clerks and others "Of course, they are not true," thought the gentleo out in the accounts of the affair as surely as my own"

If Haldane had been utterly overwhel spirit of a detected and whipped cur, Mr Arnot's complacency would have been perfect But as it was, the affair had gone forward in a jarring, uncomfortable manner, which annoyed and irritated hi piece of mechanism in one of his factories Opposition, friction of any kind, only lect; therefore he summoned Pat in a tone whose very accent foretold the dooive no inforht?" he deled, for giving up his forty dollars a ical operation He saw that his master was incensed, and in no mood for extenuation; so he pleaded-"Misther Arnot, won't ye plaze slape on it afore ye gives e If ye'll only think a bit about them newspaper men, ye'll know it could not be helped a' tall If they suspicion that ain him that they're wantin' to know, they the same as put a corkscrew intil him, and pull till somethin' comes, and thin they ot by 'eone intil their rav'nous maws"