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CHAPTER V. THE FIRST SPARK PASSES

"Now, gentlemen," shouted the auctioneer when he had finished his oration upon the girl's attractions, "what 'tin I bid? Eight hundred?"

Stephen caught his breath. There was a long pause no one cared to start the bidding.

"Come, gentlemen, come! There's my friend Alf Jenkins. He knows what she's worth to a cent. What'll you give, Alf? Is it eight hundred?"

Mr. Jenkins winked at the auction joined in the laugh.

"Three hundred!" he said.

The auctioneer was mortally offended. Then some one cried:--"Three hundred and fifty!"

It was young Colfax. He was recognized at once, by name, evidently as a person of importance.

"Thank you, Mistah Colfax, suh," said the auctioneer, with a servile wave of the hand in his direction, while the crowd twisted their necks to see him. He stood very straight, very haughty, as if entirely oblivious to his conspicuous position.

"Three seventy-five!"

"That's better, Mistah Jenkins," said the auctioneer, sarcastically. He turned to the girl, who might have stood to a sculptor for a figure of despair. Her hands were folded in front of her, her head bowed down. The auctioneer put his hand under her chin and raised it roughly. "Cheer up, my gal," he said, "you ain't got nothing to blubber about now."

Hester's breast heaved and from her black eyes there shot a magnificent look of defiance. He laughed. That was the white blood.

The white blood!

Clarence Colfax had his bid taken from his lips. Above the heads of the people he had a quick vision of a young man with a determined face, whose voice rang clear and strong,-- "Four hundred!"

1. Who was the second person to bid?
2. What did he offer?
3. Did that make Jenkins get more serious?
4. What was his new bid?
5. What was his first?
6. Did he act goofy with his first?
7. What did the auctioneer suggest for the first bid?
8. Was there a fourth?
9. from who?
10. Who was getting ready to bid when this new man did?
11. What is being sold?
12. What is her name?
13. Is she scared?
14. How does she feel?
15. What does the auctioneer see that as?
16. How does she show it to him?
17. What kind of look does she give him?
18. Where was she looking before that?
19. where were her hands?
20. Does the auctioneer like the first bid?
1. Colfax
2. Three hundred and fifty
3. Yes
4. Three seventy-five
5. Three hundred
6. Yes
7. Eight hundred
8. Yes
9. a young man with a determined face
10. Clarence Colfax
11. a girl
12. Hester
13. No
14. defiant
15. the white blood.
16. from her black eyes
17. a magnificent look of defiance
18. down
19. folded in front of her
20. No