" "I do not doubt it," retorted Winifred, scornfully; "because I attach credit neither to one nor the other. ’ ‘Can’t say as I’m sorry to hear you say that, missie,’ confessed the sergeant, on a relieved note, as he locked the front door of the mansion and pocketed the key. He laid down the knife, and fixed a searching and distrustful gaze upon the writer, who continued his task, unconscious of anything having happened. " "You shall take my life first," rejoined Sheppard. ’ ‘Now that’s where you’re wrong. " The feminine vanities in Ruth were quiescent; nothing had ever occurred in her life to tingle them into action. "But I agree with Hogarth, that he is precisely the person to do what he has done.