It did not in the least vex Miss Goold to know that her servants' quarters were decorated with portraits of the reigning family in gilt frames, or that King William III.

pranced on a white charger above the kitchen range.

Nor had she any objection to her butler invoking a nightly malediction on the Pope over his tumbler of whisky-and-water.

Unfortunately, her maids--the first three were Roman Catholics--found that their religious convictions were outraged, and left, after stormy scenes.

The red-haired Protestant from the North who followed them was indifferent to the eternal destiny of Leo XIII., but declined to be dictated to by Mrs.Ginty about the conduct of her love affairs.