"Just as an accomplished horseman exercised ideal control over the
strongest horse with the lightest hand, so Mr. Lowther had shown
such tactful skill in handling them that those who had sat under
him had bus-consciously been disposed to accept his guidance."
_Provincial Paper_.
A praiseworthy effort of the printer to keep up the metaphor.
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[Illustration: THE VICTIM.]
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