MR.

SAUNDERS HAS A PLAN Miss Pelham's affair with Thomas Saunders by this time had reached the stage where observers feel a hesitancy about twitting the parties most concerned.

Even Britt, the bravest jester of them all, succumbed to the prevailing wind when he saw how it blew.

He got in the lee of popular opinion and reefed the sails of the good ship _Tantalus_.
"Let true love take its course," he remarked to Bobby Browne one day, after they had hearkened to Deppingham's furious complaint that he couldn't find Saunders when he wanted him if he happened to be wanted simultaneously by Miss Pelham.

"Miss Pelham is a fine girl.