HALF A MILLION OF MONEY

IT was now nearly four o'clock in the afternoon. Throughout the search at the barricade, Saxon had seen the shells flying at a great height overhead, and heard the battle going on unceasingly in the streets of the town. Sometimes the sounds advanced, sometimes retreated; but never ceased for one minute together. Finding at length that neither friends nor foes came round in their direction, the men posted at the barricade became impatient, and dropped away one by one; and presently Saxon, being to all appearance no more likely to find his friend in one place than another, followed their example.