"Antonia will kill herself?" she cried out.

This i rv tell into the silence of the room with strange- ly little effect. Only the doctor, crumbling up a piece of bread, with his head inclined on one side, raised his face, and the few long hairs sticking out of his shaggy eyebrows stirred in a slight frown. Dr. Monygham thought quite sincerely that Decoud was a singularly unworthy object for any woman's affection. Then he lowered his head again, with a curl of his lip and his heart full of tender admiration for Mrs. Gould. "She thinks of that girl," he said to himself; "she thinks of the Viola children, she thinks of me, of the wounded, of the miners she always thinks of every- body who is poor and miserable! But what will she do if Charles gets the worst of it in this infernal scrim- mage those confounded Avellanos have drawn him into? No one seems to be thinking of her." Charles Gould, staring at the wall, pursued his re- flections subtly. " I shall write to Holroyd that the San Tome" mine is big enough to take in hand the making of a new state. It 11 please him. It '11 reconcile him to the risk." But was Barrios really available? Perhaps. But he was inaccessible. To send off a boat to Cayta was no longer possible, since Sotillo was master of the har- bor and had a steamer at his disposal. And now, with all the democrats in the province up and every Campo township in a state of disturbance, where could nd a man who would make his way successfully overland to Cayta with a message, a ten days' ride at a man of courage and resolution who would

avoid arrest or murder, and if arrested would faith-