"Was the fellow's heart made of marble?" cried Bartram, in some perplexity at this phenomenon. "At any rate, it is burnt into what looks like special good lime; and, taking all the bones together, my kiln is half a bushel the richer for him." So saying, the rude lime-burner lifted his pole, and, letting it fall upon the skeleton, the relics of Ethan Brand were crumbled into fragments. NOTES [1] Written in 1848; published in Holden's _Dollar Magazine_ in 1851. [2] 182:26 Delectable Mountains. A range of mountains referred to in Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_. [3] 190:22 ubiquitous. Being present everywhere. [4] 194:29 diorama. A series of paintings arranged for exhibition. See dictionary. [5] 195:30 Titanic. Characteristic of the Titans; therefore large. COLLATERAL READINGS _The Scarlet Letter_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _The House of Seven Gables_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _The Marble Faun_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _The Gray Champion_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _The Wedding Knell_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _The Great Carbuncle_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _Dr. Heidegger's Experiment_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _The Haunted Mind_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _Feathertop_, Nathaniel Hawthorne. _Rip Van Winkle_, Washington Irving. _The Elixir of Life_, Honoré de Balzac. _The Leather Funnel_, A. Conan Doyle. _The Return of Imray's Ghost_, Rudyard Kipling. _A Gentle Ghost_, Mary Wilkins Freeman. THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR[1] _By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)_ Denis de Beaulieu was not yet two-and-twenty, but he counted himself a grown man, and a very accomplished cavalier into the bargain. Lads were early formed in that rough, warfaring epoch; and when one has been in a pitched battle and a dozen raids, has killed one's man in an honorable fashion, and knows a thing or two of strategy and mankind, a certain swagger in the gait is surely to be pardoned. He had put up his horse with due care, and supped with due deliberation; and then, in a very agreeable frame of mind, went out to pay a visit in the gray of the evening. It was not a very wise proceeding on the young man's part. He would have done better to remain beside the fire or go decently to bed. For the town was full of the troops of Burgundy and England under a mixed command; and though Denis was there on safe-conduct, his safe-conduct was like to serve him little on a chance encounter.