Her pointed nose slowly followed Sandy's progress.

It was Sandy's first experience with a wild creature whose instincts were sharpened by blindness, and he was puzzled.

There was a tense hard look about Sandy's cruel mouth.

It was now serious work to get the stones up, for Sandy's head only was above the level of the ground; it was all he could do to lift some of the larger ones out of the hole, and Willie saw that he must contrive to give him some help.

She was thinking of sun, or star, or angel, may-be, and smiling at Sandy's speech, for sympathy.

But the day following that on which they came to this conclusion, the sick man appeared before Sandy's astonished eyes.

" "I would have made him take the flowers, if I had been here," said Elizabeth, in a manner that seemed very positive, in comparison with Sandy's uncertain speech.

It was Jacqueline who began with a joke which was rather old, but everyone appreciated itat that momentand the laughter lasted long enough to restore some of the colour to Sandy's face.

"At last one of Sandy's fists grazed him on the shoulder and sort of peeved him, it looked like.

It was Sandy's voice who spoke and Sandy's were the arms that lifted the children gently into the enormous sack held open by Noddy and Blink, and placed them at the top of the toboggan-slidebut they were feeling too curiously tired and sleepy to understand exactly what was happening.

To a man of Sandy's tact a word was sufficient, and he resigned himself to seeking companionship elsewhere.

I would take Sandy's word as quickly as another man's oath.

" Nothing could shake Sandy's determination.

The surest way to head off suspicion from himself was to direct it strongly toward some particular person, and this he had been able to do conclusively by his access to Sandy's clothes, his skill in making up to resemble him, and by the episode of the silk purse.

" Presently Sandy's voice was heard from below.

Sandy wuz lent out ez yushal, a spekilater come erlong wid a lot er niggers, en Mars Marrabo swap' Sandy's wife off fer a noo 'oman.

But somehow er 'nudder de niggers foun' out all erbout it, en dey all knowed de kitchen wuz ha'nted by Sandy's sperrit.

Po' ole Tenie useter go down dere at night, en wander 'roun' de school'ouse; en de niggers all 'lowed she went fer ter talk wid Sandy's sperrit.

"Oh," replied Annie, "Uncle Julius says that ghosts never disturb religious worship, but that if Sandy's spirit should happen to stray into meeting by mistake, no doubt the preaching would do it good.

" The boys had noted Sandy's glances, however, and the reply only whetted their curiosity.

But for once Sandy's ears had played him false.

They had not tied Sandy's arms, he remembered; and he wondered if a dagger concealed in Sandy's sleeve would have made any essential difference in the result of that particular crime of the Committee.

They had not tied Sandy's arms, he remembered; and he wondered if a dagger concealed in Sandy's sleeve would have made any essential difference in the result of that particular crime of the Committee.

Would a dagger in Sandy's sleeve have made any difference?

To Sandy's delight, this was a leg of English mutton his mistress had expressly chosen; and, as she significantly told me, "Sandy never let that down upon me."