The meeting gathered headway, and as one speaker after another was presented by the chairman, I observed that Mrs.Harwood and her husband frequently exchanged glances of approval; and I'm afraid that Mrs.Harwood's profile, and that winning smile of hers, interested me quite as much as the pleas of those who advocated the pending bill.

Then the representative of a manufacturers' organization inveighed against the measure, and my two friends became even more deeply absorbed.

It was a telling speech, by one of the best-known lawyers in the state.

Once I saw Dan's cowlick shake like the plume of an angry warrior as his wife turned toward him inquiringly.

When the orator concluded, I saw them discussing his arguments in emphatic whispers, and I was so pleased with the picture they made that I failed to catch the name of the speaker whom the chairman was introducing.