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'What! here at the club?'

'Yes; followed ! It was horses, I think because of the fellow's trousers'

'What did you say?'

'Me! Oh, I didn't say anything'

'And how did it end?'

'When he'd done talking I offered hi off the end went upstairs I suppose he went ahen he was tired of waiting'

'I'll tell you what, Dolly; I wish you'd let me ride two of yours for a couple of days,--that is, of course, if you don't want theht now, at any rate'

'No; I ain't tight,' said Dolly, with melancholy acquiescence

'I mean that I wouldn't like to borrow your horses without your re all about it Nobody knows as well as you do hofully done up I ah at last, but it's an awful squeeze in the meantime There's nobody I'd ask such a favour of except you'

'Well, you may have them;--that is, for two days I don't knohether that fellow of h, and told hih took them out of the stables That's what soroom'

'Oh my dear fellow, that is such a bore; I don't think I could do that My felloill believe you, because you and I have been pals I think I'll have a little drop of curacoa before dinner Coive us an appetite'

It was then nearly seven o'clock Nine hours afterwards the sah, Dolly Longestaffe's peculiar aversion, was one--were just rising from a card-table in one of the upstairs rooarden was not to be open before three o'clock in the afternoon, the acco the night No arden, but suppers at three o'clock in thewere quite within the rule Such a supper, or rather succession of suppering, there had been to-night, various devils and broils and hot toasts having been brought up from time to time first for one and then for another But there had been no cessation of ga since the cards had first been opened about ten o'clock At four in the estaffe was certainly in a condition to lend his horses and to re about it He was quite affectionate with Lord Grasslough, as he was also with his other co the normal state of his mind when in that condition He was by no means helplessly drunk, and was, perhaps, hardlyto play at any game whether he understood it or not, and for any stakes When Sir Felix got up and said he would play no ot up, apparently quite contented When Lord Grasslough, with a dark scowl on his face, expressed his opinion that it was not just the thing for men to break up like that when so ain But Dolly's sitting doas not sufficient 'I' that day,--'and I shall play no o to bed at some time'