Old Andrew MacPherson made the comment as he received the papers from Stoddard's hands.

" Stoddard's troubled eyes raised themselves to her face.

" A little satiric sparkle leaped to life in Stoddard's eyes.

" "Such a type,' were Mr. Stoddard's exact words I believe," returned Miss Sessions a little frostily.

These were the women of Gray Stoddard's world.

Gray Stoddard's occasional spoken word, or the more lengthy written messages he had taken to putting in the books he sent her, seemed to demand of her nothing, but always inspired to much.

" He stopped at a little shed back of the offices, sometimes called the garage because Stoddard's car stood in it.

Now, what would you say, in her heredity, makes a common girl like that step and look like a queen?" Gray Stoddard's face relaxed.

" The suggestion of Stoddard's making advances of unseemly warmth to Mandy Meacham produced a subdued snicker.

"You mustn't couple my name with Mr. Stoddard's that way," Johnnie told her.

" Miss Sessions had smiled upon the piteous little group with a judicious mixture of patronage and mild reproof, and her driver had shaken the lines over the backs of the fat horses preparatory to moving on, when Stoddard's car turned into the street from the corner above.

"Stoddard's got back" "Of course," broke in old MacPherson, quickly, "and gone over to Mrs. Gandish's for some supper.

This hegira was undertaken mainly to get her sister away from the scene of Gray Stoddard's disappearance; yet when the move came to be made, Miss Sessions refused to accompany her sister.

" Ever since her brother-in-law opened the door of the sitting room and announced to the family Gray Stoddard's disappearance, Lydia Sessions had been, as it were, a woman at war with herself.

"Shade Buckheath had everything to do with Gray Stoddard's disappearance.

Dare she make inquiry as to whether he had heard of Gray Stoddard's disappearance, or met any of the searchers?

So this morning when I found that Pap Himes and Shade had taken Mr. Stoddard's car and come on up this way, it scared me.

Something shining and dark, brave with brass and flashing lamps, stood on the rocky way beneath, and purred like a great cat in the broad sunlight of noonGray Stoddard's motor car!

Gray Stoddard's voice asked.

But her mind scarcely registered the impression, for a rifle ball struck the shaly edge of a bluff under which the road at this point ran, and tore loose a piece of the slate-like rock, which glanced whirling into the tonneau and grazed Gray Stoddard's temple.

"Ain't this rather fast?" shouted Uncle Pros, who had lifted Stoddard's bleeding head to his knee and, crouched on the bottom of the tonneau, was shielding the younger man from further injury as the motor lurched and pitched.

What do you think I've found out about our mine?" Certainly the old man looked very tall and dignified in his new splendours; but now he was all boy, leaning eagerly forward to half whisper: "I don't knowwhat?" Stoddard's face was scarcely less animated as he searched hastily in the pigeon-holes of his desk.

5.Wells, in the early copies of his School Grammar, as has been hinted, adopted a method of analysis similar to the Second one prescribed above; yet referred, even from the first, to "Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar," and to "De Sacy's General Grammar," as if these were authorities for what he then inculcated.

[sicKTH] the Third Method above, yet differing from it, (as does Andrews and Stoddard's,) in taking the logical subject and predicate before the grammatical.

The possessive phrase here should be, "Andrews and Stoddard's," as Wells and others write it.