"Neither," she answered, "I be satisfied with my friend, Roger de Conde."

"A most unbridgeable gulf indeed," commented Roger de Conde, drily.

"One can never tell," said Roger de Conde, "what manner of fool a man may be.

"Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak.

In this manner, the mysterious old Roger Chillingworth became the medical adviser of the Reverend Mr.

DAN:--"Uncle Roger says all that keeps her alive is that she's scared her husband will marry again."

Uncle Roger says the drawing string has fell out of it.

He then descended, and stood, with downcast eyes, to receive Roger Malvin's parting words.

An almost superstitious regard, arising perhaps from the customs of the Indians, whose war was with the dead as well as the living, was paid by the frontier inhabitants to the rites of sepulture; and there are many instances of the sacrifice of life in the attempt to bury those who had fallen by the "sword of the wilderness." Reuben, therefore, felt the full importance of the promise which he most solemnly made to return and perform Roger Malvin's obsequies.

The soldiers closed in around their captain; and he and Roger Williams stood together under the banner of the Red Cross; while the women and the aged men pressed forward, and the mothers held up their children to look Endicott in the face.

A sad and quiet smile flitted across the mild visage of Roger Williams.

Rogers.' A compliment which the last-named lady acknowledged with graceful condescension.

Rogers; after whom all the other ladies responded, 'Oh, certainly.'

"How you talk, Ben Rogers. How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?"

Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular, or don't you?