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STRONG AS DEATH.291harity in them for evermore. Occasionally, fora minute, the place she was in seemed to growunreal to her, and to fade; the next, she took upthe full sense of the yvords which yvere beingspoken, and every face in the crowd, every detailof the building, every accident of the scene,seemed to strike uponher brain through her eyes.She never looked at Jim, but she saw him distinctly-;she saw also the look with yvhich Routhregarded him.Tliat look was murderous.As the boy's storymade Iris motiv-es evident, as it exposed the fallaciousnature of the security on which Routhhadbuilt, asit made him see how true had been Harriet'sprevision, how yvise her counsel — though hehated her all the more bitterly as the knowledgegrew more and more irresistible — the murderousimpulse rose to fury within him. Standing thereaprisoner, helpless, and certain of condemnation,for he never had a doubt of that, the chain hehad helped to forge by his counsel to Dallas yvastoo strong to be broken; he yvould have takentwo more lives if he hacl had the power and thechance — the boy's, and that accursed woman's.