The moment she was out of the house, Aleck eagerly tore the wrapper from the paper, and her eyes and Sally's swept the columns for the death-notices.

Disappointment! Tilbury was not anywhere mentioned.

Aleck was a Christian from the cradle, and duty and the force of habit required her to go through the motions.

She pulled herself together and said, with a pious two-per-cent.

trade joyousness: "Let us be humbly thankful that he has been spared; and--" "Damn his treacherous hide, I wish--" "Sally! For shame!" "I don't care!" retorted the angry man.