The fire spurted and crackled and made me start, but Maloney found relief in a genuine shudder, and I saw him turn his head and look about him from the sea to the trees.

" Maloney sat up and found his tongue.

Maloney collapsed visibly, and I gathered the wood over the fire and coaxed up a blaze.

He drew the flap of the tent after him and settled down, but hardly had he done so when the canvas shook a second time, and in blundered Maloney.

There was light enough to distinguish our faces easily, and I saw Maloney glance again hurriedly at both of us.

Probably Maloney's swift acquiescence in the doctor's mood had something to do with it; for his quick obedience certainly impressed me a good deal.

Maloney stopped humming and began to force the breath through his teeth with a kind of faint hissing, treating us to a medley of church hymns and popular songs of the day.

"Safety lies in following our leader" "I'm not thinking of myself," he interrupted sharply; "only, if anything happens to Joan to-night I'm going to shoot firstand pray afterwards!" Maloney put the book back into his hip-pocket, and peered out of the doorway.

" Then he looked hard at Maloney.

"But no violence, or shooting, remember, Mr. Maloney, unless you want a murder on your hands.

It was Maloney.

"'There goes old Biddy Maloney pottering about in that plot of ground again,' thinks I. 'She's got it on the brain since her law-suit.'

When I got home I happened to say to Mother: 'I saw poor old Biddy Maloney doddering round that wretched field as I came along'.

There was nobody else in those parts mistakable for Biddy Maloney, and no other old woman was in or near the house while my father was there.

It was Biddy Maloney and no one else.

I hadn't realized I was approaching Biddy Maloney's cottage until I saw her coming out of it

and I certainly hadn't thought of Biddy Maloney until my eye fell upon her.

William F. Maloney (E); 18Feb55; R144736.

By Eugene Kinkead & Russell Maloney.

By Eugene Kinkead & Russell Maloney, with maps & illus.

William F. Maloney (E); 8Mar54; R126742.

William F. Maloney (E); 18Feb55; R144736.

"There's Tom Maloney.

Among the latter class were Paul Perkins' monoplaneSilver Arrow, he called it,Hiram Nelson's two models, the monoplane of Tom Maloney, a lad of about sixteen, and Ed River's little duplicate of a Curtiss biplane.

The committee has decided to offer a further reward of five dollars to Thomas Maloney, whose model shows evidence of praiseworthy and painstaking work.