They all stood looking rather sheepish, and like actors "stuck" who cannot think of the next line, till Joe turned on the girl with some mumbled question.

" CHAPTER XII AT THORS Below the windows of a long, low, stone house, in its architecture remarkably like a fortified farmbelow these deep-embrasured windows the river Oster mumbled softly.

" "Feel very comfortable," the old man mumbled.

mumbled the old man.

"What is it you want, Jean?" The servant mumbled his justification: An automobile had broken down on the highroad near the château, the chauffeur was unable to move the car or make any repairs in the storm, a gentleman had come to the door to ask....

The page of the ancient reader over which I then mumbled is now before me.

Then I mumbled something about hoping to see them again before they left Paris, and escaped, knowing that I had made a horrid mess of my excuses.

"Matters of stateerrevolutionand that sort of thing," he mumbled, eying her; "but I thought it might gratify you to know that I am Prince George of Rumtifoo" "What!"

"No, no; I am just a little short-sighted, that is all," he mumbled, rather awkwardly.

What can he do?" "'Tsall right," mumbled Lanpher, shutting the gate and shoving home the bar.

The former mumbled a greeting to Racey but barely glanced at the girl.

"Very well," he mumbled, sulkily.

" "No, mister," he mumbled, "a bite out hereno, mister"and then, as though the sound of his own voice inspired him, he grew declamatory.

" "You just bet I will," mumbled Andy, curling himself up as near the fire as he dared creep.

" "It put him in a dreadful way," Jenkins mumbled, "for no one had bothered to tell me it was young Mr. Robert the detective suspected, and when Mr. Silas heard the detective boast that he knew everything and would make an arrest in the morning, he thought about the handkerchief and knew he was done for unless he took Howells up.

But even while I mumbled my hasty breakfast and ran to the station to catch my train the atmosphere of the school was all about me, and my dreamer's courage trembled and vanished.

"He used his left hand, all right," said Coquenil, "and, sapristi, he had sharp nails!" "Parbleu!" mumbled the shrimp.

"The old fellow nodded. 'II'll kidnap her and take her to Europe,' he mumbled. '

It proved all true tho', as she'd mumbled For on a day the varlets stumbled On a green spotsit linguae fides 'Tis Suidas tells itwhere Alcides Secure, as fearing no ill neighbour, Lay fast asleep after a "Labour.

"I can't," she mumbled, her mouth full, "unless perhaps it's this bread.

"Very odd," mumbled Lewisham, cursing his own stupidity and looking away.

Her lips mumbled and trailed the words, so deep was the effort of her mind.

Not mumbled prayers; Not greed and carven tombs, not misers' candles; No offerings, more, from men that feed on men; Eternal psalms and endless cruelties! . .

And at times her lips mumbled with fragments of some foreseen argument between herself and Skinner.

"You had best speak to Master Skyffington himself about the business," rejoined Sir Marmaduke, not heeding the mumbled apology, "he will be here anon.