He didn't come head foremost, nor glancing upward, but rose square up to the surface, and pausing a single instant, darted forward like an arrow and seized the fly.

She hesitated a breathless instant.

"] "He made no protest, sir," I replied, after waiting an instant for one of my companions to act the part of spokesman.

" On the top of the divide that gave them their last glimpse of Rampart she stopped an instant and looked back.

"I received this morning yours of April 12 and 29th, and at the same time one from my son at Paris, dated the 4th instant.

He stood an instant after his voice died, and listened to the quiet.

" "Billie Bradley, if you don't tell us what we want to know this instant," cried Laura, jumping to her feet and making a threatening movement toward Billie's mischievous head, "I'llI'lloh, I don't know what I'll do.

Beth and Patsy turned their heads an instant to glance at Hetty.

She looked at me an instant with face whitened by a new fear.

"Since you can't expect, Sergeant, to prepossess the judge and jury in your favor, the instant you make your appearance in the box" "Here, what are you on to, sir?"

" I assured her I would not lose a single instant, and

Lanyard lingered another instant.

They could have slept, but the ground offered no place, for wherever the foot rested an instant the weight of the body pushed it down into the oozy soil until water gushed in over the shoe-tops.

"But it's all nonsense about its always being wet here; they tell me it's fine for weeks together; that you can never tell any instant whether it's going to clear up or not; that the weather will change like a womanGood heavens, look at that!" He nodded to the east as he spoke.

Austin stared at him an instant.

His grip was growing every instant more compelling.

"Is it true," I asked, too anxious to delay an instant the solution of the mystery, "that you have left the service?"

He caught her up, holding her an instant.

It was the sharp yelping bark of a dog, followed an instant later by the sharper crack of a whip, and a familiar voice.

The men aboard the attacked ship have no warning of their impending death except a thin sheaf of water that follows on the surface in the wake of the submerged torpedo and which lasts only an instant. RUN BY COMPRESSED AIR By a compressed air arrangement motive power is furnished the torpedo in transit for its propellers.

"I'm quite willing so to do," returned Mr. Job, whose confidence and moral courage increased each instant.

She takes it out every instant to look at the moment-hand.

It had come on in the excitement of their march into the morassor it had come the instant they both became conscious of it.

I am going this instant to Boone to learn his source of information.

Attendez quelques instants.