" Young Morse's thoughts seem to have been gradually focusing on the two subjects to which he afterwards devoted his life, for in a letter of March 8, 1809, he says: "Mr. Day's lectures are very interesting.

Lawrence followed suit, his close-set eyes focused belligerently on Carroll's face, the hostility of his manner being akin to a personal menace.

These marginal objects are in the mind even when you conscientiously focus your mind upon the history lesson, and, though vague, they try to force their way into the focus and become clear.

Instinctively and helplessly Moran and Tyler focused their gaze on the dials that bound their red wrists.

Instinctively and helplessly Moran and Tyler focused their gaze on the dials that bound their red wrists.

When he returned to his office an hour later, Carroll was still seated motionlessly before the grate firean extinguished cigar between his teetheyes focused intently on the dancing flames.

That he should have done all this merely to focus all eyes upon him, and particularly the eyes of a girl, did not occur to anyone.

The ugliness, the pain, the striving to escape, the whole negative and suppressed agony that was the Place, focused that second into a concentrated effort to produce a result.

Temporarily, of course, both men and gods focus their interest on one womanmaybe quite ardentlyand fiercely resent interference, as an angry bee is apt to sting when kept from the flower it has accidentally chosen; but that is a different thing from the monopolism of true love.

His eyes focused angrily on the enormous first page headlines: "CARROLL HAS SOLVED WARREN MYSTERY "Identity of Clubman's Slayer Known to Famous Detective "WILL MAKE ARREST WITHIN 24 HOURS "Sensational Developments Promised by David Carroll in Exclusive Interview with Reporter for The Star.

Then, suddenly, with a rush and a flutter of the heart, he knew that it was close beside him in the tent; and, when he turned over for a better hearing, it focused itself unmistakably not two feet away.