Supplies failed--no one would come in from the farms." John waited with the fear of defect in his ideal man.

Then he ventured, "And Aunt Ann, was she here ?" "No, I sent her away when I went to Milltown." "Oh! you were there too, sir ?" "Yes, damn it!" He rarely swore at all.

"Where did you suppose I would be?
But I lived in terror for a month--oh, in deadly fear!" "Thank you, sir." "Thank me, what for?
Some forms of sudden danger make me gay, with all my faculties at their best, but not that.

I had to nurse Rivers; that was the worst of it.

You see, my son, I was a coward." "I should like to be your kind of a coward, Uncle Jim." "Well, it was awful.