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160 as occasion offers, I shall continue my instructive narrative. If I told you the history of our nation fully, as I mentioned before, it would be an endless task; therefore, I must be as brief as possible, and pass over long periods of time with a few words."

The Recorder now went through his department to give further instructions, while I again accompanied him. Everything this man did was done in a quiet, yet thoroughly masterful manner, and I began to hold him almost in awe, so great was my opinion of his power of penetration and command. But in spite of my respect for him, now and then his ideas of what a true Venus should be had the effect of lowering him in my estimation, at least as an artist.

We now went outside the building, and met all the officials and clerks, both men and women. The Recorder remarked:—"It is the closing time; the day's work is over. We will allow them to go first, as, having to take you with me, I can't make as much speed as they