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fed sumptuously, daily; and, having previously obtained by double fraud, a signature to the effect that robbery was a legal loan, gloated over the misery he had caused, and denounced the victim himself had made. Once more the picture flew on, years had gone by, the despised man— despised because his skin was darker than his destroyer’s—had risen into eminence and fame. “It changed again. Disgrace, poverty, the prison and the halter had avenged him. “ ‘The way of the world!’ said Miakus, ‘but recollect that “ ‘Ever the Right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done!’ What could you expect else from so small a portion of a man? Trust no one. This was fate. Fate cannot be evaded. Submit. It will be well in the sequel. W� ��� �� ����� ����’ “Again those words! and uttered by Miakus, too! “My mind framed a desire to behold something of the future that should be as plain as the pictures of the past had been, and if there was any means whereby the blows of fate might be softened, any field in which to live and act free from the loneliness hitherto endured, and when next my eyes glanced through the magic tube, there passed across the field of vision a solitary human head and bust. So swiftly did it glide past