... police! Vou, who have so often assured me of your friendship A hj word from you would set Boris free, and you refuse to K speak it. Orders have been given that even I cannot dis- obey, unmoved by her wrath as he had been by her distress. 'ft' Then ...

... clutched the rail. With heaving breast and swimming eyes she stood waiting for the man to speak, and yet dreading what he might have to tell her. But he did not speak. He sat very still, half-dazed. Presently she turned to him. If you have any dramatic instinct ...

... to have uttered the open sesame to the agent's sanctum. Miss Thorpe exclaimed the young woman, seizing the mouthpiece of a speaking tube. Oh, will you wait a minute, please 1 Her altered manner held the promise of good news for the girl and a few moments ...

... he threw the end of his cigar over- board and remained silent. He was a heavy man and forceful of speech though he did not speak often except to me. A P. and O. liner breeds strange companions, and this taciturn, huge-shouldered man inte- ft rested me ...

... to have uttered the open sesame to the agent's sanctum. Miss Thorpe exclaimed the young woman, seizing the mouthpiece of a speaking tube. Oh, will you wait a minute, please 1 Her altered manner held the promise of good news for the girl and a few moments ...

... wasn't anybody worth mentioning, and, well, no more was he. In a hard world Joe ft knew his own value, and, matrimonially speaking, ft Miss Curtis was about the size of it and a bit over. During the ten-days' courtship that preceded his ty proposal he ...

... real neighbourly, but somehow you talk different from most of them. I have been in England for a long while. You know they speak differently over there. Perhaps I've picked up the English accent, and it's said that the soft climate there affects the voice ...

... back to her, whistling, looking out of the window. Nothing serious, I suppose he said carelessly, as she moved. She did not speak, and the weight of her silence oppressed him. lie was obliged to turn round. Nothing serious, I suppose he repeated. All this ...

... struck ap- W parently by a sudden idea, he glanced towards the occupant of the dock. Now, John Smith, what have you to say Speak up 1 added the gaoler as John Smith made no response. Why were you singing? demanded Mr. Merriman. Was it due to pure lightness ...

... a modern Eve who lived in a very modern gar den next door to a modern Devil. There is no moral to look for and no plot to speak of. In fact, it is a little fragment of history that cannot worry the wise, the foolish, or even the world itself. ft At eight ...

... an aristocrat Irom the crown of her golden head to the sole of the little white shoe that had betraved her. She could not speak, so great was her terror she could make no appeal, and we may imagine in that wonderful moment that the grace of God and the ...

... J^O^SHORT STORY The next day they met again. El Raman endeavoured to speak with her, but she rode past disdainfully. Still another day he tried to accost her. Madame, I wish to speak with you Monsieur, a thousand pardons, but I have an engagement of the ...