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 table against the wall and write a long and urgent letter to the manager of "The Pastoral Scene." He had finished it and was looking absently and somewhat discontentedly at the bridge players, when General Broadfeather, gazing at the cards in his hand and apparently having no thought for anything else in the world, unexpectedly said, "Ah, yes—Teen-Kah!" He seemed unaware that his remark had been pertinent an hour earlier, but not since then; for he repeated it: "Ah, yes—Teen-Kah!" Then he added: "One imagines America must be more and more extraordinary. The evening he was here Teen-Kah talked to me at least two hours about the enormous city he lives in, and the Illinois and Union Paper Company. One felt desperately ignorant never to have heard of either. Most extraordinary person—Teen-Kah!"

Ogle caught the briefest flicker in the world of Mme. Momoro's glance toward himself; and then, as first suspicions faintly sickened him, he understood that "Teen-Kah" was no Kabyle mountain, nor even a Kabyle chieftain, but only General Sir William Broadfeather's pronunciation of the name of a person more objectionable than the worst of the mountains or the wildest of the chieftains. Tinker had just