"Mrs.
Denover will sit in the dark, which I've----" "That will do, Jane Anne," taking the dip and unceremoniously cutting her short.

"Vamoose! evaporate! When I want you I'll sing out." He re-entered the room and placed the candle on the table.

The woman had risen, and stood with both hands clasped over her heart, a wild, gleaming, eager light in her black eyes.

But she strove to restrain herself.
"I am glad to see you back, Mr.Parmalee," she said.

"I have been expecting you for the last two days." "And wearing yourself to skin and bone, as I knew you would, with your fidgets.