"Don't stand there objecting to everything, with not a suggestion of your own to offer." "I know what is best for my people," the old man replied softly, still smiling, "I have advised them to stay inside their houses and take no part in the military event.

It is the only hope of averting an indiscriminate massacre, and things worse." The curt phrase, "things worse," went like a bullet-stroke through Beverley's heart.

It flashed an awful picture upon his vision.

Father Beret saw his face whiten and his lips set themselves to resist a great emotion.
"Do not be angry with me, my son," he said, laying a hand on the young man's arm.

"I may be wrong, but I act upon long and convincing experience." "Experience or no experience," Helm exclaimed with an oath, "this fort must be manned and defended.