Three years back you would have blenched at the name of murder.

"How nowhow now!" cried Giles; "do ye blench before this churlish carrion?

" "Why, look'ee, master," spake Jenkyn, bold-voiced yet blenching from Beltane's unswerving gaze, "look'ee, good master, here is no matter for honest woodsmen, look'ee" "Aye," nodded tall Orson, "'tis no matter of ours, so wherefore should us meddle?"

' 'Forty years, perhaps?' Mrs. Steadman blenched under Lord Hartfield's steadfast looka look which questioned more searchingly than his words.

Winchesters and shotguns protruded from the line threateningly, but the mob came on as though it were going to press through, and determined faces blenched with excitement, but not with fear.