It was a startled, incredulous, angry amazement, in which blame afterward visited upon generals or Cabinet, was humbly taken on the people's shoulders and echoed in a moaning mea culpa.

[Illustration: The Frog is of-ten-est to be seen In grassy mea-dows, damp and green.]

" Grandmamma kissed mea thing of the greatest rareness.

A feeble voice stopped mea whisper rather than a voice, for there was hardly strength to speak, "Who is there?" "Oh, thank God," I exclaimed, "you are not dead!"

After our meal, I begged the Indians to perform one of their dances for mea request with which they readily complied.

"Thou would'st not have mea man, messire?" "'Twould be less hard to leave thee.

But every incident of the day pales before the startling contents of the mail bag which Atkinson gave mea letter from Campbell setting out his doings and the finding of Amundsen established in the Bay of Whales.

Suddenly I hear the rolling of heavy wheels; I turn, and a strange sight is before mea mass of women in rags, livid, horrible, and yet grand, with the Phrygian cap on their heads, and the skirts of their robes tied round their waists, were harnessed to a mitrailleuse, which they dragged along at full speed; other women pushing vigorously behind.

"For mea message!

"You sent for mea notary," he said.

He took me for a long ride, kept me to dinner, and manufactured a job for mea piece of work that would occupy and tire me.

" "Is it notforgive mea pity to live no better life?"

They separated, and never met again until they met in the dock before mea trysting-place not of their own choosing, and more strange than a novelist would dream of.

" "Fortunati ambo si quid mea carmina possunt, Nulla dies unquam memori vos eximet aevo.

That the creatures should so soon have found the door wasto mea proof of their reasoning capabilities.

A helpless sensation of paralysis came over mea restless, confused impression of my possible untrustworthiness, and of unfriendliness to me in high quarters, even of a thinly veiled hostility to me.

And yet sometimesmostly in the forenoon when I am not at all tiredI will suddenly have a sense as of the world opening around mea sense of its beauty and its meaningsgiving me a peculiar deep happiness, that is near complete content Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.

" "I will not ask you to do what you call wrong; no, nor to transgress any of the ties you respect, you, whose home is so unlike mine; only tell me that I may have hope, that if I deserve you, I may win you; that you could grant mewretched mea share of your affection.

I hear the boys tittering at the table behind mea sound which, telling me how ill I am speeding, makes my confusion tenfold worse.

In fact, she actually said she was glad to see mea statement no other aunt on the list would have committed herself to, the customary reaction of these near and dear ones to the spectacle of Bertram arriving for a visit being a sort of sick horror.

You only insult me, sir, by speaking thus, when you know thatthat you consider mea thief!"

she asked, and there was that in her voice which was like to undo mea tone and the merest fanning of my face by her loose sleeve as she pointed to the card.

"You should not, mon ami, speak to me as if I were that which you once thought mea light woman."

There was quite a company of men came up the stair with Murray, crowding, all of them, into the room, with eyes full of astonishment at what they saw: Mr. Lindsey and Mr. Gavin Smeaton, and a policeman or two, andwhat was of more interest to mea couple of strangers.

I did not restrain that spirit as I ought to, so it grew upon me, until it almost became a part of my nature, and now that I have grown up to be a woman, and people expect better things of mea word, a thought, or look will call forth those feelings once more, even at times of the most serious reflection; and then many call me light-minded and trifling.