Chapter 12 DWIGHT POLLARD.

Oh, 'tis too true! how smart

A lash that speech doth give my conscience!

-HAMLET.

He was standing with his back to me, and to all appearance was unconscious that he was under the surveillance of any eye. I had thus a moment in which to collect my energies and subdue my emotions; and I availed myself of it to such good purpose that by the t