He rose to his feet, pulling down his cuffs.
"By the way," he observed, "I want you three to lunch with me to-day at my club.

It is close by.

You can wait there for news of the court's decision as well as anywhere else, and I should like to show you the place.

I have just joined." At the club, when the four men were seated at a small table in the round window of the main room, Lyman's popularity with all classes was very apparent.

Hardly a man entered that did not call out a salutation to him, some even coming over to shake his hand.