Dar'll be lively times of he comes here to see Miss Sally." "But he may have changed his ideas while living abroad, where this sort of thing is simple murder." The negro shook his head grimly.

"Den he wouldn't come, sah.

No, sah.

He knows dat Tom Higbee's bound to go fo' him or leave de place, and Marse Jack wouldn't mind settlin' HIM too as well as his brudder, for de scores is agin' de Doomonts yet.

And Marse Jack ain't no slouch wid a scatter gun." At any other time the imminence of this survival of a lawless barbarism of which he had heard so much would have impressed Courtland; now he was only interested in it on account of the inconceivable position in which it left Miss Sally.