The news of the disaster and the incoherent stories of these half-crazed fugitives spread consternation through the camp.

Midnightand the castaway, despairing, half-crazed with grief, still knelt by the dead body, tearing his hair, and groaning: "Aloneleft alone!" CHAPTER XIV.

The introduction justifies itself, however, in this case because, since a half-crazed man with weakening memory is to tell the real tale, his narrative would have to be supplemented by explanations on nearly every page unless the introductory part could be taken for granted.

Two of the neighbors were obliged to take away La Guiraude, who, half-crazed, clung, shrieking, to her son's body.

That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by the river-bank and preached a djehad.

Piteously the half-crazed father besought us to rescue his child from the terrible fate in store for her.

And spies swarmed of all sorts, patriotic denouncers, half-crazed witnesses.

The name of this half-crazed being was Solomon Eagle.

This satisfied Madam Conway that the half-crazed woman meditated harm to her favorite grandchild, and she consented readily to her removal to the cottage, which by her orders was made comparatively comfortable.

" For a moment Maggie looked at her in astonishment; then thinking to herself, "She surely is half-crazed," she answered laughingly: "Yes, Hagar, if grandma casts me off, you may go with me.

" "Poor old woman!" murmured Maggie, the tears rolling down her cheeks, as she thought how strong must be the love that half-crazed creature bore her, and how little it was returned, for every feeling of her nature revolted from claiming a near relationship with one whom she had hitherto regarded as a servant.

Of Hagar, too, she often thought, pitying the poor old half-crazed woman who for her sake had borne so much.

He, too,' said the landlady, 'would soon break down: he looked like a ghost, and seemed "half-crazed.

'She is a poor melancholy half-crazed creature, I take it,' said the squire; 'at least, that is what I hear.

Half-crazed, I stood and gazed, and gazed, and gazed at the distant steamer.

They say the Queen moved among the half-crazed soldiers shining and beautiful as a star, boy.

When there was no more corn, the people managed for a while to keep alive on roots and herbs; then, half-crazed by starvation, they fell to cannibalism.

A carbineer also fired after him from the saddle, but Hallam rode on unscathed in his half-crazed night, leaving his deserted men gazing after him, astounded.

The half-crazed mother appealed to Mrs. Stowe, who raised the needed money among her friends, and thus saved the lad.

"Just put out his hand and caught my arm, saying with that calm and quiet voice of his: "'I shall not return any blow you may give me, Mr. Graham, so please do not do anything you will regret when you recover yourself!' "I realized his strength of body and the grip he had on my arm and even my half-crazed brain recognized the power of his spirit.

Behind it walked, or rather trotted, three stout women and a man, the former half-crazed with heat and anxiety, mopping their brows and their tears as the cortege advanced.

" "I didn't know that guardian angels carried pistols," said Albert, trying to laugh the half-crazed fellow out of a conceit from which he could not drive him by argument.

The old half-crazed look had departed from his eyes, and the over-sensitive nature had found a satisfaction in the standing which the founding of a town and his improved circumstances had brought him.

" "Yet they never told it so that any mortal ever understood what they said, or could apply their visions to any passing events, and the same givings out of these half-crazed old bards, for such they were, have been applied to fifty different things by as many different generations of men," said Case.

" Burton, half-crazed with anxiety, went the following day to the Leeds bank with the proffer of a fresh name agreed to be lent him by its owner.