If he live, I shall have something left to live for; else I could have wished that we had all perished together!" "Nay," cried Fritz from the fire, "we can do better than that: we can join those who have the welfare of the country at heart.

We can punish proud France for her ambition and encroachments, and perchance--who knows ?--England's flag may ere long proudly wave where now only the banner of France has floated from her scattered forts." But just at this moment Humphrey could not be roused to any patriotic fervour.

The sense of personal loss and horror was strong upon him.

His thoughts were turning vaguely towards the mother country from which his fathers had come.

For the moment the wild West was hateful to him.