How absent-mindedly his arms had held her, and how numbly they had fallen away when she turned at the door.

"IIguess I made a mistake," he said numbly.

I don't know that I said it aloudsuch things need not be said aloudbut as I turned almost numbly into the house, stumbling on my way to bed, my whole being seemed to cry out: "Thank God, thank God!" XI AN OLD MAN Today I saw Uncle Richard Summers walking in the town road: and cannot get him out of my mind.

he said, rising numbly to his feet and rubbing his eyes with his fists, while he tried to comprehend an astonishing reversal of custom.

It crawls, the beetle creature, in a hard shell, hiding the dim, inner struggle of its growing wings, moving numbly as if in a torpid dream.

"I don't know," Mary said numbly.

" "Before she sails," thought Bradford, numbly.

"You'veyou've turned her out?" gasped Lord Bazelhurst, numbly.

Numbly he obeyed.

He gave the royal party a cheese knife and a watermelon, and bade them be merry, a bidding which set the hearts of Piggy and Abe and Jimmy and Mealy to dancing, while Bud's heart, which had been sinking lower and lower into a quagmire of dread, beat on numbly and did not join the joy.