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 all parents and guardians. Certainly it is a little advanced for the junior members of the congregation. We have done our humble best to make it as lucid as possible, but the mental processes of an Ex-Ambassador call for the very nicest skill on the part of our Pegasus, who was never a very agile beast, at his best, and age don't improve him.

Mary the Tactful waited quite a minute for the Fellow-Occupant to break the silence. And then into little pieces the silence was shattered.

"I don't say I've any influence with Balsquith, but I might throw out a hint to Huffham and MacMurdo and the other Rag, Tag and Bobtail wire pullers that your man would like to stand for 'em, and a very able man, too."

Tactful Mary was breathless with gratitude. But not for a moment did her statesmanlike grasp desert her.

"Some large manufacturing town—Leeds or Bootle, or Sheffield, or Blackhampton, where they'd remember my Cinderella, and where I've presented medals, and where I've sung at concerts, when they've brought home T'Coop. If Free Trade and I can't get him in in any of those places, where they know a Cinderella when they see one—"

The granddaughter of the goddaughter of Edward Bean burst into a peal of laughter.