THE ISLAND IN THE LAKE When Paul awoke the others were munching the usual breakfast of dried venison, and Henry handed him a piece, which he ate voraciously.

Henry was sitting on the ground, with his back against a fallen log, and he regarded Paul contemplatively.
"Paul," he said, in the dryest possible tones, "I don't see how you could have been so hard-hearted." Paul looked at him, startled.

"Why, what do you mean ?" "To tear yourself away, as you did, from a loving father and mother.

Why, Sol, here, tells me that you actually threw your mother from you." "Truth, Gospel truth," put in Shif'less Sol.

"I never seen sech a cruel, keerless person.