I am interested, however, to see what they will do.

It is pretty safe to be an object-lesson to the countryside, one way or the other." During this monologue the pair had strolled far afield with their cigars, and Langholm was beginning to puff his furiously.

At first he had merely marvelled at the other's coolness; now every feeling in his breast was outraged by the callousness, the flippancy, the cynicism of his companion.

There came a moment when Langholm could endure the combination no longer.

Steel seemed disposed to discuss every aspect of the subject except that of the investigations upon which his very life might depend.