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The dispute went on, Chris Valentine alternately flippant and earnest,

the rector conciliatory, Graha and silent Nolan had started

on the Irish question, and Rodney baited him with the prospect of

conscription there Nolan's voice, full and ely sweet,

do He had heard Nolan air his views before

He was a trifle acid, was Nolan He needed , a woirl had died With the curious

constancy of the Irish, he had ree race," Clayton reflected idly, as Nolan's voice sang on "Don't

knohat they want, but want it like the devil One-woman men, too

Curious!"

It occurred to him then that his own reflection was as odd as the

fidelity of the Irish He had been faithful to his wife He had never

thought of being anything else

He did not pursue that line of thought He sat back and resu, hardly thinking, but

conscious of a discontent that was beyond analysis

Clayton had been aware, since his return froe in hinized it until he