At any rate, they had an investigation--there was a committee of citizens appointed to sit in judgment on his record.

The chairman was a pillar of the church and a public benefactor; he had led every political reform for a generation; and I happened to know that he kept two mistresses up somewhere in the Bronx, and his wife, who was old and ugly, wore herself to a shadow because he neglected her.

Mark you, I'm not upholding Barney, but, good Lord! ain't it queer how easy men get off when they just sin against women and not against men or against the State ?" "It's all queer." She rose from the leather chair, and held out her hand.

"I'm glad I came in, Mr.O'Hara.

Some day you must tell me the rest." "The rest ?" His embarrassment had descended upon him, and he was awkwardly stammering for words, with her cool hand in his grasp.