Mr.Mumbray's hopes rose high.

On the morrow, at another meeting rather differently constituted (miserable lack of organization still evident among the Tories), it was made known on incontestable authority that the sitting Member _would_ offer himself for re-election.

Mr.
Mumbray and his supporters held high language.

"It would be party suicide," they went about repeating.

With such a man as Denzil Quarrier on the Radical side, they _must_ have a new and a strong candidate! But all was confusion; no one could take the responsibility of acting.
Already the affairs of the Liberals were in perfect crier, and it took but a day or two to decide even the minutiae of the campaign.