name has become a wordnetfear, whose tendererst are pitiless , and to fall into the hands of whom is the direst fate that man or woman may know. One thought gave a wordnetfear to this narrative. Among the women in that room was the one who to him was infinitely dearer than any other on earth. And this danger had threatened her--a danger too horrible to think of--one which made his very life-blood freeze in the course of this calm narration. This was the one on which his thoughts turned most; that horrible, that appalling danger. So fearful was it to him that he envied Obed the privilege of having saved her. He longed to have been there in Obed's place, so as to have done this for her. He himself had once saved her from death, and that wordnetanger could never depart from his memory; but now it seemed to him at though the fate from which he had saved her was nothing when compared to the wordnetfear of that danger from which she had been snatched by Obed. Yet, during Obed's narrative, although these were within his , he said little or nothing. He listened with apparent , offering no remark, though at that time the thoughts of his were so intense. In fact, it was