I hope to see you soon as erect as a Guardsman.

Ye'll be pleased, I trust, to take more care of this jewel than others have of that one: or" "Or you'll shoot me yourself, Bowie?" said Frank, half amused, half awed, too, by the stern tone of the guardsman.

For herself she never thought: but if the Coast Guardsman above should see her mother, stop her, question her?

I.An Officer of the Guards A Guardsman at home is always luxuriously accommodated, and the Hon.

" The young guardsman whistled.

" "And how long do you stop in Paris?" asked the guardsman.

" "And I must use the little time I have," said the guardsman, as he turned away to where Adele waited for him in the window.

He had seen Bontems hurry off and summon the guardsman and his friend.

In an instant a dash of colour had come back into the guardsman's bloodless cheeks, and the light of memory into his eyes.

The unfortunate guardsman had now entirely recovered his senses, and found himself with a strap round his ankles, and another round his wrists, a captive inside a moving prison which lumbered heavily along the country road.

" The guardsman again pressed his comrade's hands.

The guardsman shrugged his shoulders and the other whistled.

to Paris!" shouted the guardsman frantically.

" Thanks to the early tidings which the guardsman had brought with him, his little party was now ahead of the news.

Will you suffer it?" cried the guardsman in French.

The guardsman walked over to the side and peered down into the darkness.

The guardsman pulled Adele into the shadow of the mast, and then, as the monk advanced, he sprang out upon him and seized him by the gown.

" "And I you," cried the guardsman.

" The seigneur bowed with much condescension, and shook the guardsman by the hand.

The young guardsman was only too delighted to find himself admitted to such an intimacy.

I was now near enough to act, and with a sudden clutch I pulled the guardsman away, whirled him around, and stood in his place.

"Heave him up on his pins, and let us look at him," quoth a burly guardsman.

Next in the line is a smooth-faced portly man, clad in fine broadcloth, unmistakably a Catholic Priest; next is a man of soldierly bearing whose uniform and shoulder-straps proclaim him to be the commander of the national guard of the State; close beside the guardsman is the stalwart superintendent of the city police.

"I think I like 'Why was Balaam like a Life-Guardsman?' better, on the whole," I say, presently, peeping through my fingers, and speaking with a suspicious tremble in my voice.

"'Balaam like a Life-Guardsman?'