Before he went into the house after his evening chores were done, he stopped for a moment and looked back at the cleft in the mountain wall through which the railroad left the valley. He had been looking longingly toward that door of escape all his life, and now he said good-by to it. Ah well, twant to be, he said, with an accent of weary finality; but then, suddenly out of the chill which oppressed his heart there sprang a last searing blast of astonished anguish. It was as if he realized for the first time all that had befallen him since the morning. He was racked by a horrified desolation that made his sturdy old body stagger as if under an unexpected blow. As he reeled he flung his arm about the pine tree and so stood for a time, shaking in a paroxysm which left him breathless when it passed. stranger. Now observe the Adjective. Here was a case where simplicity would havenewspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heardthat sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and I came off here because I couldnt hold in at home any longer, answered the other between sobs. You see I cant go away. Her husband treats her so bad she cant stay with him. I dont blame her, she says she just cant! So shes come back and she aint well, and shes goin to have a baby, and Ive got to stay and support her. Mr. Bradleys offered me a place in his store and Ive got to give up goin to the navy. He suddenly realized the unmanliness of his attitude, rose to his feet, closing his lips tightly, and faced the older man with a resolute _expression_ of despair in his young eyes.