He found only Mrs Murchison, on a stepladder tying up the clematis that climbed about the verandah, and she told him a little about clematis and a good deal about the inconvenience of having to abandon superintending the spring cleaning in order to get Lorne ready to go to the Old Country at such short notice, but nothing he could put in the paper.

Lorne, sought at the office, was hardly more communicative.

Mr Williams himself dropped in there.

He said the Express would now have a personal interest in the object of the deputation, and proposed to strike out a broad line, a broader line than ever.
"We've got into the way of taking it for granted," said Mr Williams, "that the subsidy idea is a kind of mediaeval idea.

Raise a big enough shout and you get things taken for granted in economics for a long while.