He
is issuing orders that as far as possible no firearms shall be
used near the house; any killing that is necessary on the premises
will be done with cold steel. The Bishop does not see why a man
should not be a gentleman as well as a Christian."
That was the last they saw of Clovis; it was nearly seven o'clock,
and his elderly relative liked him to dress for dinner. But,
though he had left them for ever, the lurking suggestion of his
presence haunted the lower regions of the house during the long
hours of the wakeful night, and every creak of the stairway, every
rustle of wind through the shrubbery, was fraught with horrible
meaning. At about seven next morning the gardener's boy and the
early postman finally convinced the watchers that the Twentieth
Century was still unblotted.
"I don't suppose," mused Clovis, as an early train bore him
townwards, "that they will be in the least grateful for the
Unrest-cure."
THE JESTING OF ARLINGTON STRINGHAM
Arlington Stringham made a joke in the House of Commons. It was a
thin House, and a very thin joke; something about the Anglo-Saxon
race having a great many angles. It is possible that it was
unintentional, but a fellow-member, who did not wish it to be
supposed that he was asleep because his eyes were shut, laughed.
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