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At the end of the roo, dressed in a tailor-made suit of masculine pattern and cut Her

hair was pretty in color and texture, but it was cut almost close, and

just touched the collar of her covert coat She wore a bowler hat, her

gloves were on the table in front of her--thick, dogskin gloves, like a

man's She held a roll of paper in her hand, which was bare of rings,

though feh in size and shape A pince-nez was balanced on

her nose, and her chin--really a pretty chin--was held high in an

aggressive manner

Nell had an idea that this was Lady Wolfer, and she edged as close to

the wall as she could, and watched and listened to the speaker with a

natural curiosity and anxiety

"To conclude," the orator was saying, with a wave of the roll of paper

and a jerk of the chin, "to conclude, we are banded together to wage a

war against our old tyrant--a war of equity and right Oh, my sisters,

do not let us falter, do not let us return the sword to the scabbard

until we have cleaved our way to that goal tohich the eyes of

suffering wohts for

both sexes sounded its first evangel!"