Did they teach you this sort of strategy at West Point ?" "They taught me that I could neither receive nor give an insult under a white flag," said Carroll, pleasantly.

"And they allowed me to make exchanges under the same rule.

I picked up this pocket-book on the spot where the accident occurred to Dr.West.

It is evidently his.

I leave it with you, who are his executor." The instinct of reticence before a man with whom he could never be confidential kept him from alluding to his other discovery.
Prince took the pocket-book, and opened it mechanically.