Did you ever study the eyes of a hound ?" "At rest ?" "No, when he is following his instincts! Or, better still," Adam went on, "the eyes of a bird of prey when he is following his instincts.

Not when he is swooping, but merely when he is watching his quarry ?" "No," said Sir Nathaniel, "I don't know that I ever did.

Why, may I ask ?" "That was the look.

Certainly not amatory or anything of that kind--yet it was, it struck me, more dangerous, if not so deadly as an actual threatening." Again there was a silence, which Sir Nathaniel broke as he stood up: "I think it would be well if we all thought over this by ourselves.

Then we can renew the subject.".