The novel is for the lighter moment after the deed is done, when he is no longer brunting Fate, but reclining idly, and reflecting humorously or malignly on this life.

But whatever power of mischief lay in this marvellous combination of evil forces, so malignly working together, the Administration in which they found their life and whose agencies they employed was soon to yield up its fearfully desecrated trust.

" Then he smiled malignly and said in a low tone, "You know already what we know, and I know very well that in your youth you carried contraband.

Suddenly he saw the profile of the dead woman with one eye turned toward him, graciously and malignly, just as the "eye of the morning" must have looked at its mistress while uncoiling her mysterious dances in her Asiatic dwelling.

For, honestly, Miss Anna, youfrom the first time I ever saw you, youyouWere you going to speak?" Behind the screen Flora smiled malignly while Anna said, "No, II was onlyno, not at all; go on.

" She turned malignly.

And ere the shadow of another night Hath darkened Pisa, many a foe shall stray Through Nino's home, with eyes malignly bright