Today's Stichomancy for James Cameron

around my neck like a--like a--" Millstone was what I wanted to say, but I couldn't think of it.

He turned over and looked up from his cushions like an ill-treated and suffering cherub.

"I'm done for, Kit," he groaned. "Bella went up to the studio after we left, and investigated that corner."

"What did she find? The necklace?" I asked eagerly. He was too wretched to notice this.

"No, that picture of you that I did last winter. She is crazy--she says she is going upstairs and sit in Takahiro's room and take smallpox and die."

Psalms 78: 36 But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue.

Psalms 78: 37 For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.

Psalms 78: 38 But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath.

Psalms 78: 39 So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Psalms 78: 40 How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!

Psalms 78: 41 And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78: 42 They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.

Psalms 78: 43 How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;

Psalms 78: 44 And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.

Psalms 78: 45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

Psalms 78: 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.

The Tanach

upon beautiful women, upon sharp swords, and upon bright armour."

CHAPTER III.

The warriors arose from their place of brief rest and simple refreshment, and courteously aided each other while they carefully replaced and adjusted the harness from which they had relieved for the time their trusty steeds. Each seemed familiar with an employment which at that time was a part of necessary and, indeed, of indispensable duty. Each also seemed to possess, as far as the difference betwixt the animal and rational species admitted, the confidence and affection of the horse which was the constant companion of his travels and his warfare. With the

years, he had never ventured forth--in regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated--an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit--an effect which the physique of the grey walls and turrets, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought about upon the morale of his existence.

He admitted, however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more natural and far more palpable origin--to the severe and

The Fall of the House of Usher