You have been so taken up with your new hero that I have had few of your thoughts." Mr Ruthven smiled at Rose from the other side of the table. "Well, tell us about it now," said she. "You must have enjoyed it better than you expected, for more than one of the `small-hours' had struck before you came home." "Oh, yes, I enjoyed it very well. I met young Storey, who has just returned from Europe.

The ship-news man could be seen towards the small-hours, writing his highly imaginative department, which showed how the Sally Ann, Master Todd, arrived leaky in Bombay harbor; and there were stacks of newsboys asleep on the boilers, fighting in their dreams for the possession of a fragment of a many-cornered blanket.