Nevertheless we feel assured that in making them public, we shall not betray the informants, concealing as we do their names and the estates to which they belong.

"You forget," said I, "that it was in India I knew your own informant.

A Turkish officer, taking our informant for a Turk too, remarked to him: "Those Arabs wish to get rid of us and are secretly in sympathy with our enemies, but we mean to get rid of them ourselves before they have any chance of translating their sympathy into action."

Ere they set sail they earnestly besought our informant to escape from the island, as he valued his life.]

'But,' added my informant, 'they are poor creatures, and their Heavenly Father does not seem to do much for them.'

For he started back, and at first showed signs of choking his informant.

We stopped at a tavern two or three miles on, when somebody told the old lady that I was 'the chap that did it;' but as I had told her that this Bart wasn't much of a fellow, she was inclined to doubt her informant.

In July 1916 he went to Constantinople, accompanied by his staff (which included the informant from whom this account is derived), and, being cordially received by Enver and Talaat, discussed the situation with them.

I could listen to no more, and hurried from the spot, leaving my brutal informant to guess at the cause of my abrupt departure.

But this intrigue of the antient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed affects to disbelieve: as she does also some puisny gallantries of her foolish brother; which, by way of recrimination, I have hinted at, without naming my informant in their family.

In one of the most luxurious dining-saloons on one of the most luxurious of the great German linersI promised my trustworthy informant not to be more definitethe man who was head-waiter during the year preceding the war impressed those under him with being much more interested in some mysterious business ashore than in his duties aboard ship.

He tried to question his informant, but the man was so overcome with excitement and fear that Miller saw clearly that he must go farther for information.

Gerôme sharing my opinion that the report was got up for the sake of extorting a few keráns, we soon sent our informants about their business, and calmly proceeded on our journey.

" Had anybody told Danny Lowry that the gods had called him he would have stigmatized his informant as a liaryet they had.

I told my informants that they need not worry about us; we were well able to take care of ourselves.

Having listened attentively to all the details of the plot, the Cardinal courteously thanked his informants, and requested them to proceed to Fontainebleau, and to repeat what they had told him to the King.

So, like a well-disposed young lady, I very properly resolved that mine should not be the arm to support the venerable Mrs. Arlington in her daily walks; that should the children playfully ornament the cushion of her easy-chair with pins, I would not turn informant; and should a conspiracy be on foot to burn the old lady's best wig, I entertained serious thoughts of helping along myself.

He would not believe anything of the sort, but upbraiding his informants with neglect, bade them try again.

The grounds of these intimations being inconclusive, the objects uncertain, and the fidelity of that country known to be firm, the only measure taken was to urge the informants to use their best endeavors to get further insight into the designs and proceedings of the suspected persons and to communicate them to me.

"That'll be Mrs. Coombe now," volunteered his informant.

When told, one day, of the unfavorable whispers, he smiled a little and answered his informant,whom he knew to be one of the whisperers himself,laying a hand kindly upon his shoulder: "Father Murphy,"or whatever the name was,"your words comfort me.

'But isn't it strange that such a fine crop should be reared on such bad land?' asked our informant.

In fact I did not believe my informant; for three weeks of abuse, together with my continued inability to get in touch with my conservator, had so shaken my reason that there was a partial recurrence of old delusions.

" Thurstane knew all this, but he did not say so; for he was a wise, considerate commander already, and he had learned not to chill an informant.