virtue. The popular lore of all nations testifies th.it

duplicitv anl < mining, together with bodily strength, ijH.n, cvni more than courage, as heroic yr primitive mankind. To overcome your ad- narv was the great alTair of life. Courage was taken r granted. Rut the use of intelligence awakened Vender and respect. Stratagems, providing they did >t fail, were honorable; the easy massacre of an un- ispecting enemy evoked no feelings but those of Badness, pride, and admiration. Not, perhaps, that primitive men were more faithless than their descend- Mts of to-day, but that they went straighter to their aim and were more artless in their recognition of suc- 4bss as the only standard of morality. We have changed since. The use of intelligence awakens little wonder and less respect. But the Hoorant and barbarous plainsmen engaging in civil strife followed willingly a leader who often managed to deliver their enemies bound, as it were, into their hands. Pedro Montero had a talent for lulling his ad- versaries into a sense of security. And as men learn wisdom with extreme slowness, and are always ready clieve promises that flatter their secret hopes, Pedro Montero was successful time after time. Wheth- er only a servant or some inferior official in the Costa- Ma legation in Paris, he had rushed back to his

try directly he heard that his brother had emerged

Hbfn the obscurity of his frontier commandancia. He had managed to deceive by his gift of plausibility the chiefs of the Ribierist movement in the capital, and even the acute agent of the San Tome" mine had failed

.nderstand him thoroughly. At once he had ob-