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As Haldane elare of the street, he was oppressed with such an intolerable sense of shaainst the policeman, who took no other notice of his condition than the utterance of a jocular re"

Haldane radually passed away As his stunned and bewildered ained the power to act, he becaarded by those whom he met He knew that their manner would pierce like sword-thrusts, and yet every scornful or averted face had a cruel fascination

With a bitterness of which his young heart had never before had even a faint conception, he re and jeering world was the same in which only yesterday he proposed to tower in such lofty grandeur that the ret in ained e of hih was coht stand as a uardians traathering rabble at their heels had no terror for the before respectable citizens this dangerous substratu, "Behold in these your peril, and in us your defence We are necessary to your peace and security Respect us and pay us well"

They represented the h and low alike, and the publicity which was like a scorching fire to Haldane brought honor to theh the journey see in reaching the police court, where thehad already entered on his duties All night long, and throughout the entire city, the scavengers of the law had been at work, and now, as a result, every miserable atom of humanity that had athered here to be disposed of according to sanatory moral rules

Hillaton was a coe community there is always a certain amount of human sediment, and Haldane felt that he had fallen low indeed, when he found himself classed and huddled with miserable objects whose existence he had never before realized Near hih huerous and difficult to control To the instincts of a beast was added soence, but so developed that it was often littleaway his manhood, man becomes a creature more to be dreaded than a beast or venomous reptile, whichever he happenswith her womanhood, scarcely finds her counterpart even in the most noxious forms of earthly existence She beco that is unnatural and n, as to suggest it only in caricature, or, ons, Sirens, and Harpies of the ancients are scarcely myths, for their fabled forms only too accurately portray, not the superficial and transient outward appearance, but the enduring character within