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Stern, unspeakably saddened in spite of victory by this wholesale destruction of forest, fruit and ga spectacle

He left his rifle at it, amazed and awed to silence by the splendor of the flah their eye-shields in absolute astonishment

Back to Cliff Villa he returned, his step heavy and his heart like lead In a few brief hours, how great, how terrible, how devastating the changes that had come upon Settlement Cliffs!

Attack, destruction, pestilence and flame had all worked their will there; and many a drea cinder-piles across the river--those pyres that marked the death-field of the hateful, venomous, inhuered up the path, knocked, and was ad of his son, vigorously protesting against so father-love

"A hard world, boy!" thought he "A hard fight, all the way through God grant, before you come to take the burden and the shock, I hten both for you?"

The old woman touched his arm

"O,past?"

"It is past and done, Gesafaain! But tell ered, e anis, Allan had to sot to learn, old mother!" he exclaimed "I'll milk presently But not just yet!"

For first of all he ain The boy must cry a bit, till he had seen her!

To the bed he hastened, and beside it fell on his knees His eager eyes devoured the girl's face; his trelad cry broke froer burned with fever, and her pulse was slower now A profuse and saving perspiration told him the crisis had been passed

"Thank God! Thank God!" he breathed froht her He drew her to his breast

And even in that hour of confusion and distress he knew the greatest joy of life was his