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 "Say, rather, I am in favor of justice," was the manly reply.

"This doctrine of yours is quite dangerous," Frost interrupted, to which Marrion answered:

"It is the doctrine of Him who teaches forgiveness of sins."

"Ah, Latham, you have taken a stupendous task upon yourself, if you mean to reform men," laughed Frost.

"Some men and beasts you can improve, but other natures—like wild hyenas—once wild, wild forever," was Marrion's bright rejoinder.

"I am not looking for them," was the answer.

"Come to the office with me for a moment," Willard Frost turned to Robert, when the suggestion for returning home had been made. "There is a fine painting in there that I want you to see."

They were nearly half an hour absent, but, engaged in pleasant conversation, Cherokee and Marrion did not notice the lapse of time. When the men came back, the quick eye of Marrion noticed that Robert had been drinking, and that near the border line of excess.