Olympia placed five hundred dollars at Nick's disposal in the hands of the commandant to supply the lad with better food than the commissary furnished, and, promising him strenuous aid so soon as she got back to Washington, she resumed the quest for the lost.

"Nick's upstairs.

He even insinuated that Nick's time was done and that another was due to supersede him.

Don't expect to see Nick's Cove, because it's off the map.

But, oh, boy, when that flood started, it must have piled up in Nick's Valley.

Ould Nick's yer name, is it?" "Old Nickyoung Nicksaucy Nick; all one, all to'ther.

Jug out yonder; Nick's story out here.

Nick's a cr'ature!

Nick's account had been so laconic as to leave much obscurity, and the blow had been so sudden she could hardly credit the truth in its full extent.

" Nick's face was now all softness again, and he returned the pressure of Willoughby's hand with honest fervor.

She knew the history of Nick's terrible childhood and early youth.

Nevertheless, she was aware of Nick's hand on hers, and glad of it, with a gladness made up of several conflicting feelings: such as surprise, some slight shame, and defiance of that shame.

"Oh!" murmured Angela, and clutched Nick's coat sleeve, like a girl of early Victorian days.

For an instant Nick's eyes sought Angela's, but she was tucking a rose into her belt, and did not look up.

" Nick's heart went down.

And the wish to say this was in Nick's mind, but he knew that it would be in bad taste.

They took a walk, and the momentous subject was not mentioned: nevertheless, it pressed upon Nick's thoughts.

"Little brute, I'd like to kick him if he wasn't such a duffer," was Nick's reluctant thought, for he had wanted to be favourably impressed by the Dook.

But when the cruel star broke down and cried uncontrollably, in anguish of soul, the hardness and anger which Nick's champion had cherished melted into pity.

" "Mr. Gottlieb is the grocer from whom the Joneses bought their supplies," said Chick, who had advanced to Nick's side.

" Nick's first move that day was to go to Mrs. Stevens' house.

" "Nobody ever got away from the man who is watching Jarvis," said Nick, quietly; and that praise was not too high, for the person in question was Nick's famous assistant, Chick.

Suddenly, when it seemed as if the doctor was about to raise an arch of fire-brick in order to throw the head into the fire, he turned and dropped the grim object into the jar almost directly above Nick's head.

Nick's first thought was that this was another sleep-walking wonder, but in a second this idea was dispelled.

"Young Nick's Head" is the point which the boy Nicholas Young sighted on the 6th of October, 1769the first bit of New Zealand seen by English eyes.