CHAPTER X.
A LADY OF POWERS Superficially and distantly considered, the woman from whom even J.
Rodney Potts must flee in terror would not be of a sort to excite the imagination pleasurably.

A less impulsive man than Solon Denney might have found cause for misgiving in this circumstance of Potts's prompt exodus.

In the immediate flush of his triumph, however, the editor of the _Argus_ had no leisure for negative reflections, and when misgiving did at last find root in his mind, the time had come for him to receive the lady.

But Solon Denney was not the man to betray it if a doubting heart beat within his breast.

To the town that now lavished admiration upon him, dubbing him "Boss" without ulterior implications, he was confidence itself, and rife with prophecies of benefit to be derived by our public from the advent of Mrs.Aurelia Potts.