" He mused a moment.

"This has a suspicious air, Joyce," observed the captain, after musing a little; "to me it seems like an attempt to induce us to follow, and to draw us into an ambuscade.

"A learned derelict is no better than any other kind," mused Kate compassionately.

" "That is almost a defense in itself," mused Mr. Tutt.

"Well, I suppose she won't tell me what it is until she gets good and ready," mused Joe.

"I don't want to fall and be laid up in the middle of the circus season," mused the young circus man, with a frown.

"When I'm big enough," mused the boy with a quiet savagery, "maybe I'll meet up with Pete Reeve.

But I lose Myself in Him, in Light ineffable! Come, then, expressive silence, muse His praise.

" someone advised, "Wade Street," mused the young woman at the desk, "I've heard of it.

" Thus mused the Colonel, upon the charms of the young girl who was henceforth to occupy the first place in his affection.

"Why, if Dixon contemplated anything against Miss Lytton, should he preserve this letter from her?" mused Kennedy.

"Strange, when they have so much money, they don't give the ladies nice things to wear," mused Polly.

"I see," mused the doctor.

"If Mr. Harding's circus won't take me without this restriction, why should any other show?" mused Andy.

Francis mused some little time over his narration, ere he broke silence.

"Clever!" mused Allerdyke as he closed the door behind him.

It contained a five-dollar bill, and on it was written in a scrawl, 'For a new photograph.'" "Koswell & Company got scared mightily," mused Dick.

" "No doubt," mused the major, "the negro is capable of a certain doglike fidelity,I make the comparison in a kindly sense,a certain personal devotion which is admirable in itself, and fits him eminently for a servile career.

" "We don't know much about China, do we?" mused Jack.

So mused Mary, on the unprofessional side of her mind, as she watched, that Christmastide, Captain Alec's delicate, sensitively indirect, and delayed approach toward the ripe fruit that hung so ready to his hand.

"He looks quite ordinary," mused Monsignor aloud.

"That was considered strong meat in its day, but now we have 'Damaged Goods,'" mused Jarvis.

" "So young, and can appreciate so rare a gift," mused the gentleman; "childhood, indeed, is the first to discover purity;" and the eye of the stranger grew moist, and the melancholy smile which sat upon his countenance gave place to the shadows of grief.

" "Very well except for one thing," mused Coquenil, "there wasn't any palm in Number Six.

"I wonder what he had in mind as a new act for me," mused Helen.