"With you at my side, darling," Mr.Green said passionately, "I could be stimulated into being Dictator myself.

The days of kings and constitutions are over.

The people want a strong despotic leader who has first brought about their downfall.

And they will get him--in ME!" This clinched the matter, and Cecilia, seeing visions of herself as Madame Tallien, allowed herself to be drawn into his arms! * * * * * "Do you know, my beauty," the triumphant lover said as they floated back to pick up Arabella upon the last steps, rather late in the afternoon, "I had meant to get you somehow to-day.

If you had refused to listen, I intended to take you to the Lido and keep you there all night--the gondolier and the people there are bribed--then you would have had no choice but to marry me.