And yet, when Phineas Duge sprung that thing upon us, and we saw the thunderbolt coming, we were like frightened sheep, glad to do anything he suggested, glad to sign our names even to that d----d paper.

Do you realize, Littleson, that we may have to leave the country ?" "If we do," he answered, "we are done for--I am at least.

I am in Canadian Pacifics too deep.

If I cannot keep the ball rolling here, I can never pull through." "It all depends," Weiss said, "into whose hands that paper has gone.

A week's grace is all I want, time enough to fight this thing out with Duge." "Has he been near you ?" Littleson asked.