of assuming a responsibility which makes any servant intolerable. But after his interview he resolved that he would never again overstep his position. He made sure that it should be the last offens

hat all other evidence paled into insignificance. The butler's interruption came at a moment when Mont

wles had upset his calculations to the e

sir," said Rawies, stiffening as his responsibility became more a

the tr

ble's h'e

bother me

to know, sir. The servants was going

't they?" And Monty's eyes lighted up

be satisfied. They'd be a long time finding a better place and as good wiges. They 'aven't been

nty. The butler's chin went up an

e gasped, with a respe

igher pay whenever he feels like it, and I want it distinctly understood that I am heartily in favor of their attitude. You will kindly go

n no other way could he squander his money with a better chance of getting its worth than by throwing himself bodily

, coming in with a rush. "Come upstairs and I'll give yo

ey mounted the stairs. "I don't know what I'd do wi

t, Monty, over that glass screen," she said, after finding a comfortable place among the cushions of a divan. B

: "In strict confidence, I had planned to have it fall just as we were pushing back our chairs, but the confounded thing disappointed me.

e Babylon, it fell

of her fair, aristocratic brow, and then drew lines through them when she changed her mind. Mrs. DeMille handled her people without gloves in making up Monty's lists. The dinners were not hers, and she could afford to do as she pleased with his; he was broad and tall and she was not slow to see that he was indifferent. He did not care who the guests were, or how

-just a little pronounced?

hat people

el conspicuou

We are such good f

"why, put her name down. But you evidently haven't seen that."

r she said, "'The Censor' is gr

to him the obnoxious paragraph-"If Brewster Drew a diamond flush, do you suppose he'd catch the queen? And if he caught he

" got a thrashing and one Montgomery Brewster had his na