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He leaned heavily toward Siward, stretching out his powerful arm: "You h her, if that is the way it has been established, and hang on to your God that way until your body is dead! I tell you, Siward, to et her Take her! Yours, of the two, is the stronger character, or she would not be where she is Does she hat you cannot give her? Cure that desire--it isthat shatters you! I say, let the one-eyed lead the blind Miracles are worked out bythe length of the roo out his broad hand: "Good-bye," he said "Harrington is about due at ht I am not vindictive; I shall be just with them--as just as I knohich is to be as merciful as I dare be Good-bye, Siward I--I believe you and she are going to get well"

When he had gone, Siward lay back in his chair, very still, eyes closed A faint colour had mounted to his face and remained there

It was late in the afternoon when he went down-stairs, using his crutches lightly Gumble handed him a straw hat and opened the door, and Siward cautiously descended the stoop, stood for a fewup at the blue sky, then wheeled and slowly ton Square The avenue was deserted; his own house appeared to be the only re house still open in all that old-fashioned but respectable quarter

He swung leisurely southward, a sliely out of place on crutches The poor always looked at hireeable to watch Children, who seldorown people, always became conscious of him when he passed; often smiled, sometimes spoke As for stray curs and tra as he could reme attached hi several blocks, so him home--where the outcast was always cared for, washed, fed, and ultimately shipped out to the fars resided on his bounty and rolled in luxury on his lawns

Cats, too, were prone to notice hiative tail and make tentative observations