Zo possessed herself of the bamboo cane, and led the way in.

"Carmina! here's the big stick, I told you about," she announced.
"Whose stick, dear ?" Zo returned to the landing.

"Come in, Benjulia," she said--and seized him by the coat-tails.

Mr.Null rose instinctively.

Was this his celebrated colleague?
With some reluctance, Carmina appeared at the door; thinking of the day when Ovid had fainted, and when the great man had treated her so harshly.