... and about the loosened doors and rattling sashes. Misery! ! Misery! One after another of his old-time friends dropped away, sick and tired of trying to help a man who would not help himself. They dropped away ! dropped away !—dropped away !—until the ...

... wandering alone in the street, which he felt almost sure belonged to a friend his residing at some distance. So be took the dog to the Telephone ExAstige, had himself switched on to his friend, and asked if Jack—the dog's name —was out. l'he reply being iu ...

... that showed in tbe pale face of his listener. A beautiful girl of some nineteen or twenty years, perhaps, upon whose lovely youth the blight of care and poverty bad fallen heavily. She was poorly -clad in black, and aa she put back her dingy crape veil ...

... rich Virginian land, of which he had acquired no small estate. Long ago—all her young lifetime—Mistress Alice's mother had died upon the stormy voyage from England ; and a cruel red man had slain her father shortly after, and Master Hapwell was her guardian ...

... know that voice : it is Captain Verona himself. Now, good-by. Captain, and it harm befall Enrique Delmont., tell my friends how I died ; and the young Cuban grasped the American's hand, and stood ready to seize the ropes ready to be thrown to him. . ...

... Police, you know, my lord,' said Gideon, bowing with disgusting familiarity. 'But you will allow me to present my very dear friend, the Reverend Valentine de Tigny.' The proud man's heart sank with shame and bitter humiliation as he took the promptly proffered ...

... when his carriage was obstructed by a crowd who had been suddenly drawn together by some unusual object of interest. With a youth's curiosity he signalled the coachman to stop, and hastily marls his way to the spot where the mass of people was densest. ...

... ivromour A• aid credited, heart, BelpS Ciirtington disco vault, trying to revive him. He was ‘. tried. He told a story no one credit*, that Charles Ralston had sent him from his house to the bank for papers, after keeping him busy there over the books ...

... match in cunning or in sinful knowledge of the world's ways for this man. 'Of what use can the papers be to your friend ? he asked. • My friend's a poor man, with three children, one of 'em sick, and a delicate wife, that has to have the doctor and medicine ...

... good friend accommodates Jeu thus?' 'One of the best friends I have in the world. You *hall see him when we reach home.' • Home?' 'I call it home, although it is not mine.' A shadow crossed Clarence's face as he mid,— • One of your best friends. Margaret—and ...

... after which he returned and seated himself with his friends. He was glad to make Harry's acquaintance. 'Your father and I have been warm friends for many years, and we are brothers still, as in our youth. Then he looked toward Matthew Lyon, and his heart ...

... with disaster—don't forget that I tried to save you from her doom! Don't forget that—that I did my best to keep you back; even when death stares you in the face, remember this—that I would have done anything to save you, howsoever remorseless I was concerning ...