It makes it awfully embarrassing for me." "Oh, I fancy he'll understand!" said Hesketh, easily.

"Political convictions are serious things, you know.

Friendship isn't supposed to interfere with them.

I wonder," he went on, meditatively, "whether I could be of any use to Murchison.

Now that I've made up my mind to stop till after Christmas I'll be on hand for the fight.