Do not permit Mr.Percivail to address your indignation meeting tonight, for if you do, and he smiles zat nice, good-humoured smile and tells the ladies zat he is sorry to have displease them, and zat he is to blame entirely for the blunder,--poof! Zat will be the end!" "I am not so sure of that," said Ruth.

"There are some very determined women among us, Madame Obosky." A faint line appeared between her eyes, however,--a line acknowledging doubt and uncertainty.

"And you will not join us in the protest ?" "No," said Olga, shaking her head.

"I am content to let the men have their way in small things, Miss Clinton.

It makes zem--them so much easier to manage when it comes to the big things.