"I got off better than I had any right,--limp a little, maybe, but they say that even that is mostly a matter of habit now.

Jamieson says his fiddle string may have slipped a little! And you ?" "Oh, perfectly well," she answered.

"I even think I may be happy--you know, I must start my French and English classes before long." Silent now in part as to matters present, wholly silent as to matters past, these two went on into the night, neither loosing the tight rein on self.

Swaying and jolting its way upward and outward into the wilder country, the coach at last had so far plunged into the night that they were almost within touch of the valley in which lay the Dunwody lands.

Eleazar, the trapper, rode on the box with the negro driver who had been impressed into service.