That which appeared to me great and sacred, that would I battle for, though I brought heaven tumbling about my ears." "You have made me very happy, Vance," she said at parting by the Barracks gates.

"And things shall go along in the same old way.

And mind, not a bit less of you than formerly; but, rather, much more." But Corliss, after several perfunctory visits, forgot the way which led to Jacob Welse's home, and applied himself savagely to his work.

He even had the hypocrisy, at times, to felicitate himself upon his escape, and to draw bleak fireside pictures of the dismal future which would have been had he and Frona incompatibly mated.

But this was only at times.