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I shall call you Olaf," she announced, when she had reached a decision.

For now the colonel was tiredphysically outworn, it seemed to him, as if after prolonged exertionand now the moon looked down upon him, passionless, cold, inexorable, and seemed to await the colonel's decision.

Courage had given place to fear; decision to wavering; and singleness of purpose to a divided counsel.

"For my own part, I do," replied Dave quietly; "I leave the decision to Mr. Treadwell's courtesy.

There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render their decisions without being in a position to follow the play correctly.

The committing magistrates having refused to let the man out on bail, an application was made at Judges' Chambers before Mr. Baron Martin to reverse that decision, which he did.

Holding as he did to the Papal infallibility in a form far more extreme than that subsequently approved by the Vatican Council, he was bound in consistency to accept the Pope's decision as infallible in respect to its expediency and in all its detail.

To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of observation, the most serious blunders committed by the umpires in 1912 were in making decisions before the play took place.

And it was typical of the colonel's insight that he made no attempt to influence the decision of Donnegan after this point was reached.

But no one ever appealed to Miss Eleanor without being sure, at all events, of a patient hearing, and the following morning Mr. Welsby informed the school that he had been led to reconsider his decision regarding the fifth of November, and that they might have their display as usual.

There was not much discussion, the marshal's mind was made up, and on the 30th of January, 1879, he announced in the Conseil des Ministres his irrevocable decision, and handed his ministers his letter of resignation.

The queen (it was true) continued single, but was little better than a state-prisoner in the power of these men, who under a pretence of waiting her decision, occupied the king's house, rather as owners than guests, lording and domineering at their pleasure, profaning the palace, and wasting the royal substance, with their feasts and mad riots.

" "The Judge should not allow himself to jump at such hasty conclusions before hearing the decision of the Foreman of the Jury.

Andy formed a speedy decision.

But in Mars the prerogative of mercy, in the proper sense of the wordjudicial rather than political mercyis exercised less by the Prince himself than by a small council of judges advising him and pronouncing their decision in his name.

" The motion was carried unanimously, and by way of confirming the decision, we all refilled our pipes and smoked till the stars looked down in their brightness from the fathomless depths of the sky.

In taking this decision they did not perceive the danger of death, into which they were going more than ever.

" "Have you regretted that decision since?"

"Well," Lord Hastings continued, "in Berlin I was instructed to learn what Germany planned to do to offset the Roumanian menace, for she is sure to know of Roumanians decision by this time.

A single commercial transaction to-day involves the lives of hundreds of thousands, competes for their toil and life-blood, carries the decision of their destiny.

Then anxiously we watched the man carry toward the stage the envelope containing the final decision.

Have the plum-thieves been discovered?" "I do not think that they have brought his decision about, but I am sure they hastened it.

[-43-] Perhaps some one of you regards these statements as well put, but thinks we ought first to despatch envoys to him, then, after learning his decision, in case he will voluntarily give up his arms and submit himself to you, to take no action, but if he sticks to the same principles, then to declare war upon him: this is the advice which I hear some persons wish to give you.

When I was summoned before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on August 6, 1919, I told the Committee that, in my opinion, the Japanese signatures would have been affixed to the Treaty containing the Covenant even though Shantung had not been delivered over to Japan, and that the only reason that I had yielded was because it was my duty to follow the decision of the President of the United States.