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When Haldane saw that his antagonist did not iven him to think; he experienced a terrible revulsion He ree, he felt that he had broken down utterly He was overwhel his face with his hands, he groaned "Lost, lost!"

"By jocks," exclairown fellow, "that clip would have felled an ox"

"Do you think he's dead?" asked the slattern girl, now thoroughly alariven

"Dead!" cried Haldane, catching the word, and, pushing all aside, he knelt over his prostrate foe

"Water, bring water, for God's sake!" he said eagerly, lifting up the unconscious ht and dashed in his face A moment later, to Haldane's infinite relief he revived, and after a bewildered stare at the crowd around him, fixed his eyes on the youth who had dealt the blow, and then a consciousness of all that had occurred seee for a ht have done, and then rose unsteadily to his feet

"Go back to your work, all on ye," thundered the forereat show of his zeal; "as for you two bull-dogs, you shall pay dearly for this; and let e won't answer any longer"

A moment later, with the exception of flushed faces and excited whisperings, the large and crowded apartment wore its ordinary aspect, and the machinery clanked on as monotonously as ever

Almost as mechanically Haldane moved in the routine of his labor, but the bitterness of despair was in his heart

He forgot that he would probably be discharged that day; he forgot that a dark and uncertain future was before hie and profanity, and they see proofs that all he had felt, hoped, and believed was delusion