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Twelve minutes to nine. It was a long way to the foot of the steps of the Mellicite Club! And Union Hall was filled with men who were patiently waiting for him to keep his pledged word! "I hope you'll be all right now," he said to the girl, haste in his tones. "I'm sorry I must go I have an important engagement."

The outlook is very hopeful," stated the nominee. "We'll see the state committee chairman to-morrow, Thornton. I feel quite sure that he will have our speechmaking routes laid out. Mr. Breed is very convincing sometimes when he discusses the political situation." When they were at the foot of the steps of the Mellicite Club, the young man begged permission to go about some affairs of his own.

My experience with those meetings is that you always have troubles enough to keep you talking for at least two hours." Citizen Drew glanced at the face of Farr and then at the big door of the Mellicite Club. "You don't mean to say " "I don't say anything. I seem to be in a queer state of mind to-night, Citizen Drew." Again there was an odd note of raillery in his voice.

Lawyer, old bach, rich, just as crisp in talk as he is in looks, just as straight in his manners and morals and honesty as he is in his back, arrives every night at the Mellicite Club for his dinner on the dot of eight" Citizen Drew waved his hand at the illuminated circle of the First National clock "leaves the club exactly at nine for a walk through the park, then marches home, plays three games of solitaire, and goes to bed."

But duty won out by a mere hazard of a margin because her face, as she had shown it to him at the moment of parting, possessed not merely the wonderful beauty which had so impressed him when he had first seen her it shone with a sudden flash of emotion that glorified it. He turned away and hurried to the foot of the steps of the Mellicite Club.