Certain financial considerations are involved, so that both feel a delicacy in regard to making any motion looking to the altering of the original conditions of this contract.

Under these circumstances, then, appeal is taken from this lower Court"-- and he bowed very low--"to what my young friend very justly calls the Supreme Court of the United States.

Miss Ellen, it is for you to say whether we shall resume or discontinue." The girl bowed to Judge Reeves, and then swept a sudden hand toward Stevenson and Williams.

"Go home, all of you!" she said.
And so, in sooth, much shamefaced, we did go home, Judge of the Supreme Court, officers of the Army, and all, vaguely feeling we had been caught doing some ignoble thing.

For my part, although I hope mawkishness no more marks me than another, and although I made neither then nor at any time a resolution to discontinue sports of the field, I have never since then shot in a pigeon match, nor cared to see others do so, for it has never again seemed to me as actual sport.