Sure, I'll have some of them for you in the morning.' "Bring me what you get, the first thing in the morning, even if you've landed only a few samples," said Kennedy, as Riley departed, straightening his tie and brushing his hat on his sleeve.

" "Gregory, you can rely on me," said Kennedy.

"At any rate," said Kennedy exultingly, "I think we have stolen a march on them.

Turning to her he said: "Marie, I know several very good families, and I am sure you will not suffer for what you have done by being faithful to your mistress.

"I hadn't anticipated having my hand forced so soon," said Craig after she had gone, leaving her address.

What was it that you were going to tell me when Marie came in?" "Something that may be very important, Craig," I said, "though I don't understand it myself.

"What do you mean by pressure being brought?" "Why, Close's lawyer, Lawrence, called up the editor this morningI don't suppose that you know, but he has some connection with the interests which control the Starand said that the activity of one of the reporters from the Star, Jameson by name, was very distasteful to Mr. Close and that this reporter was employing a man named Kennedy to assist him.

"Wait, wait," said a voice which I recognized instantly as Gennaro's.

What did they say?" "That other voice said to Gennaro, 'Sit down while I count this.'" "Sh!

"Now, Gennaro is talking," said Craig.

"And '17' has precisely the same chance of turning up in the next spin as if it had not already had a run of three," said a voice at my elbow.

She said she would walk with me, if not in the way, and my assurance was very positive on that point.

" She said nothing, and, after a pause, I continued "I hope you'll think as leniently of my conduct as you can, for I can't tell you how grieved I am to have pained you.

"Camp and Baldwin have been in consultation with a lawyer," he said, "and now the three have just boarded those cars," pointing out the window at the branch-line train that was to leave for Phoenix in two minutes.

" "But my brother came dashing in just now and said he was starting for Phoenix.

" Miss Cullen blushed as if I had said something I ought not to have, and stammered, "II changed my mind, andthat isI didn't write them, after all.

He stood pale and frightened, with a smile playing about his mouth, half of distress and half of defiance, that said as plain as a smile could say, "Uncle Agricola, you will have to pay for this mistake.

For a moment she seemed speechless, and then, while her eyes gleamed with passion, she said, in a cold, clear tone, and in her native patois: "Very well: if I cannot love I can have my revenge."

"Oui, merci, Miché" she said; then she added, in perfect English, "but that is not all I can do," and thenlaughed.

"Hey, old witch," said the doctor, with mock severity; "not hung yet?

" "There is comfort in thatto those who must live," said Honoré with gentle gravity.

"Yes," said the other, still toying with his glass.

"You've got it bad," said Doctor Keene, mechanically.

"We shall have to watch our house by night," said a gentleman of the household, when they had at length restored the Citizen to a condition of mind which enabled them to hold him in a chair.

"Wait," said Honoré, and they paused.

In a curious passage (which I understand no longer darkly) old mystical Swedenborg tells of his wonderment that the world of spirits (which he says he visited so familiarly) should not soon become too small for all the swelling hosts of its ethereal inhabitants, and was confronted with the discovery that the more angels there were, the more heaven to hold them!

*** "Beans running to seed," says an informative daily paper, "should be picked and the small beans extracted."

*** The crew of the U-boat interned at Cadiz, says a Madrid correspondent, have been allowed to land on giving their word of honour not to leave Spain during the continuance of the War.

"The two British Colossuses, The Tribune says, opened fire with their 300 five-millimetres guns.

I want no statue in a niche, So Cupid says, "Let Maud be 'Which!'

I know myself what it says pretty well by heart.

And now for a little of mine, he says, which he has ready to spring.

Had the sex made virtue a recommendation to their favour, he says, he should have had a greater regard to his morals than he has had.

The chariot is come; and now, dressed like a bridegroom, attended by a footman she never saw, he is already, he says, at Hampstead.

well, she says, there are some men who have wisdom in their anger.

Finally, after having in the most absolute manner computed all the influence they exercise upon the planet Herschel, he says, 'I now know positively all existing causes that disturb the planet; but there is an outstanding power that disturbs it not yet accounted for, and now let me rise to a knowledge of that outstanding cause.'

Let him be ever so skilled in mechanics, up starts prejudice, and says, 'I won't work in the shop if you do.'

He says, 'Submit.

Dr. Cox urges them to make room for more, and says there are not more than one-tenth in of those who wish to enter.

In speaking of Mr. Wright's labours in connection with that church for fifteen years, he says, "Our brother had difficulties which other men have not.

"I am sending," he says, "notices to the evening papers, to make it known that you are going to preach this evening!"

He had spent two days at Mr. Edwards's house in Northampton; and he says, "I felt wonderful satisfaction in being at the house of Mr. Edwards.

" President Stiles, in his "History of the Judges," says, "So late as the last French war, 1760, some British officers passing through New Haven, and hearing of Dixwell's grave, visited it, and declared, with rancorous and malicious vengeance, that if the British ministry knew it, they would even then cause their bodies to be dug up and vilified.

"The Church of God in England," says the Doctor, "can never be settled upon any proper basis, whether of truth or of practical harmony, until the Established Church, as such, is separated from the State."

"This," says the Rev. Mr. Button of New Haven, "has been more fully illustrated in Massachusetts than in Connecticut.

She says "Good morning, Mrs. Florence. Are you well this morning?" "Not very well," she answers.

Jefferson, in his Notes on Va. p. 241, says of slavery, that "the State permitting one half of its citizens to trample on the rights of the other, transforms them into enemies;" and Richard Henry Lee, in the Va. house of Burgesses in 1758, declared that to those who held them, "slaves must be natural enemies."

In one of his Congressional speeches, Mr. R. says: "Avarice alone can drive, as it does drive, this infernal traffic, and the wretched victims of it, like so many post-horses whipped to death in a mail coach.

The hand-cuff; the manacle, the blood-stained cowhide!" MAJOR STODDARD, of the United States' army, who took possession of Louisiana in behalf of the United States, under the cession of 1804, in his Sketches of Louisiana, page 332, says: "The feelings of humanity are outragedthe most odious tyranny exercised in a land of freedom, and hunger and nakedness prevail amidst plenty.

The Editor, in speaking of the sufferings of the slaves which are taken by the internal trade to the South West, says: "Place yourself in imagination, for a moment, in their condition.