Can you read those marks?" "I cannot, nor could the Monacans.

" Shalah trailed like a bloodhound, following the hoof-marks out of the valley meadow to a ridge of sparse cedars where they showed clear on the bare earth, and then to a thicker covert where they were hidden among strong grasses.

Near this stands the full-length portrait of Alexander I, and at his feet are grouped captured flags of Hungary and Polandsome with blood-marks still upon them.

That fearful legacy of war seemed to weigh upon his heart; marks of plenteous tears were upon his face; Nesselrode, though old and bent and shrunk in stature, seemed stronger than his young master.

The colored Methodists of Delafield, who called their church "Saint Marks," had always been on good terms with their white co-religionists.

Mr. Drury and the pastor of Saint Marks found many occasions of helping each other in their work.

The single way in which these two showed themselves conscious of the color line was that while the pastor of First Church often "preached" in Saint Marks, when the pastor of Saint Marks appeared in the pulpit of First Church, it was "to speak on some aspect of his work.

" J.W. knew Saint Marks of old.

A few of First Church's younger people often went to sing at Saint Marks on special occasions, and went all the more cheerfully because of the chance it afforded to hear Brother King Officer preach.

But while J.W. was away at college a new pastor had come to Saint Marks, a college and seminary graduate.

A heavy burden of new responsibility was on the young pastor of Saint Marks.

So Saint Marks and its pastor found both new opportunity and new troubles.

He said as much, and answering his look of inquiry the pastor said, "There's a man speaking at Saint Marks to-night who's a Yale graduate and a Negro.

You know I used to go with the bunch to Saint Marks when Brother Officer was pastor, but I haven't been since he left.

" "The new pastor of Saint Marks told me," said Mr. Drury, irrelevantly, "that they would be wanting some new roofing for the barn they're turning into a community house.

Knowing the limited means of Saint Marks, he expected to supply the cheapest roofing the Farwell Hardware Company had in stock, but Pastor Driver had a surprise for him.

"You know we haven't had much to do with the people of Saint Marks, and maybe it wouldn't be best for us to make any sudden change as to that, even if some of us wanted to.

"I can tell by that preacher at Saint Marks," said J.W., "how I had the wrong end of the argument that night we came from Hightower's address.

On the convention night Saint Marks was crowded with young colored people, some of whom came from places a hundred miles away.

"But A good fancy rabbit must likewise have other marks, without which it cannot be considered a perfect model of its kind.

It is hence permissible to think of the thyroid as a dictator of evolution, to crown it as the vertebrate gland par excellence, and to call the typical vertebrate brand marks secondary thyroid characteristics in precisely the sense of Darwin classing the horns of cattle as secondary sexual characteristics.

It was not an imposing celebration; neither was it attended by the gladsome revelry that usually marks the nuptial event, no matter how humble.

He ascertained this fact by means of Bob Betts, which true-hearted tar stood by him, with a lantern, by swinging which low enough, the marks were seen on the lead-line.

Not more than an hour of day remained, and the question was whether to attempt to move the ship that night, when the channel and its marks were all fresh in the minds of the two seamen, and before the foul weather came, or to trust to the cable that was down to ride out any blow that might happen.

Perhaps the marks of smallpox had faded, perhaps motherhood had given expression, and what had been gaunt ungainliness in the maiden had rounded into a certain importance in the matron, nor had her dress, though quiet, any of the Puritan rigid ugliness that had been complained of, and though certainly not beautiful, she was a person to inspire respect.