Never a hostile glance or a word from Aaron.

At last, tired of dumb show, Billy broke forth with a torrent of imprecation closing with "When are you going to pitch me off the boat, you blankety-blank son-of-a-gun and coward ?" Aaron Pennington was a brave man.

He was both fearless and self-possessed.

He paused, gazed quizzically at his little tormentor, and says he: "Billy, you got a pistol, and you want to get a pretext to shoot me, and I ain't going to give it to you." II Among the hostels of Christendom the Galt House, of Louisville, for a long time occupied a foremost place and held its own.

It was burned to the ground fifty years ago and a new Galt House was erected, not upon the original site, but upon the same street, a block above, and, although one of the most imposing buildings in the world, it could never be made to thrive.