They say he looks broken-hearted.

He'll throw himself into that cold lake to-night, maybe--and the leeches--the black worms--oo!--or else he'll kill himself with that ugly pistol." It was in vain that Isabel talked to her, in vain that she tried to argue with a cataract of feeling.

It was rowing against Niagara with a canoe-paddle.

It was not wonderful, therefore, that before Albert got back, Isa Marlay found Katy reading little notes from Westcott, notes that ho had intrusted to one of his clerks, who was sent to the post-office three or four times a day on various pretexts, until he should happen to find Katy in the office.

Then he would hand her the notes.