SUPERBETS

SUPERBETS Miss Hayes' glance became stony and contemptuous, ere she deliberately "From Mr. Moore." A mischievous light comes into her face as she says this, and she laughs aloud. "But, I assure you, not as a love-token. He gave them to me when they were quite babies, and I reared them myself. Are they not lovely? I call them? 'Spice' and 'Allspice,' because one has a quicker temper than the other.",The Admiral cut a plate of meat, and the pair fell to their dinner, the housekeeper reappearing to place such another silver tankard foaming full as graced Sir William's elbow, at the side of Mr Lawrence.,“I’m—crossing—Niagara Falls—on—a—tight-rope,” said Johnny.,"He is the possessor of the Voodoo stone," she said in a low voice.,"All right then. Now listen. This mornin' I tied my Sunday clothes up an' throwed 'em out our winder. Then I got up an' sneaked 'em over to the menagerie. I'm goin' to wear 'em to school. Never you mind why, it's none of your business. When I blow into school this mornin' dressed to kill I don't want you to look too darned surprised, that's all. Now if you'll keep your mouth shut tight about that I promise not to let my witch-coon an' witch-crow eat you while you sleep; an' I'll tell you what else I'll do, I'll give you my tart an' my doughnut. Is it a bargain?"，"Ho, Bill!" cried Maurice. "Bringin' bay Thomas up to the stable fer winter, eh? Gee! Jim, look at that horse; did you ever see such a change in anythin' in your life?"，But this, it may be, was all village slander, and was never borne out by anything. And Elspeth had married the gardener's son, and Sir Launcelot had married an earl's daughter; and when the first baby was born at the "big house," Elspeth came to the Towers and nursed him as she would have nursed her own little bairn, but that Death, "dear, beauteous Death, the jewel of the just, shining nowhere but in the dark," sought and claimed her own little one two days after its birth.，"Do you know anything of Voodoo worship?""By his own confession in court, David was in the grounds of Mrs. Dallas on that night."

"Well, I'll take a chance, Bill.",BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,"I assure you he told me nothing. But I am as clever as Battersea, and can put two and two together. Next day Battersea went to Etwald, did he not, and tried to blackmail him, but this clever doctor compelled him to keep silent.","Who?" "What?" say Mona and Dorothy, in one breath.,He shivered when Cold Maker entered his lodge and drew his ragged robe about him. They were close friends.,Miss Jinny gave a snort that almost shook her whiskers off.,"That is a pretty verse," she says, quietly. "But I do not know the poem. I should like to read it.",Just then Father grabbed John by the shoulder. Ugh! it was horrid when Father took hold that way, for it usually meant a whipping.,"Ju's a clever young monkey, in spite of her grannified airs," she said, warmly. "If we can only get some of the starch out of her by the time she's old enough to take notice, her dream of being a great writer may come half-way true.","Miss Judith Kent Kendall has just had her first story accepted and printed in The Girl's Companion.","Then why does he prosecute the poor? We can't live; yet he won't lower the rints," says a sullen voice from the background.,"I hope not, indeed," says Mona giving him her hand with a very flattering haste..