Now, arms about his shoulders, hips, and knees.

Lift and lower--step off with right foot, leading bearer, with your left in the rear!" It was done in a few moments, and when the bearers passed into the big hall that rang with their shuffling steps, Maud Barrington shivered as she waited with her aunt in an inner room.

That trampling was horribly suggestive, and she had seen but little of sickness and grievous wounds.

Still, the fact scarcely accounted for the painful throbbing of her heart, and the dizziness that came upon her.

Then the bearers came in, panting, with Barrington and Dane behind them, and the girl was grateful to her aunt, who laid a hand upon her arm when she saw the singed head, and blackened face that was smeared with a ruddier tint, upon the shutter.
"Lower!" said Colonel Barrington.