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Mostyn took the , about twenty-five years of age, tall and slender, and had a clean- shaven intellectual face which was now full of suppressed nity and called the house to order by rapping sharply on Dolly's desk with the brass top of an inkstand He announced the subject which was to be debated with great gravity, adding with a sh special favor to the only lady member of the club that such a topic had been selected But--and he sues-- that ladytendencies toward the neoht be convinced of the fallacy of her really deplorable position

"Sca at her profile, he saw a half-s expression on her flushed face "That is the way he always talks," she whispered in the banker's ear "His great forte isthe whole of which Mostyn noticed that Dolly sat as if in restless thought, now and then hastily penciling a feords on a scrap of paper in her hand At the conclusion of Wilks's speech there was great applause, during which Dolly looked about the roos of hu over flowers

"Just look at the silly things!" she sniffed, as she caught Mostyn's eye "They are voting against eable as March winds Look at Mrs Ti her fist at me When I speak I always keep ht, and if I can win her over I may influence some of the rest"