HOW STORRI EXPLORED FOR GOLD Should it ever be your fancy to witness on the part of any gentleman an exhibition of ferocity unrestrained, that you may have him at his best for your experiment, it would be wise to commence by subjecting him to a tremendous fright.

Being first frightened and then relieved from his terror, and particularly if his nature be a trifle rough, he will if brought suddenly into the presence of one who has injured him furnish all you could desire in a picture of the sort adverted to.

And thus was it with Mr.Harley that evening when he called on Storri--now no longer terrible.
The offensive utmost that one gentleman might say to another, Mr.Harley said to his aforetime noble friend.

He crushed Storri beneath fourfold what bulk of insolence and contumelious remark he himself had received, for at that fashion of conversation Mr.Harley was Storri's superior.
Mr.Harley rendered Storri such shameful accounts of himself that the latter was well-nigh consumed with what inward fires were ignited.
Storri burned the more because his own cowardly alarms tied his hands and gagged retort upon his tongue.

Mr.Harley, who had been frightened to the brink of collapse in the only manner that Storri might have frightened him, now refreshed himself unchecked and fed retaliation to the full.
Storri, craven to the roots, must fain submit.