A SUPPER-PARTY AT THE "QUEEN'S" Brooks was shown into a private room at the Queen's Hotel, and he certainly had no cause to complain of the warmth of his welcome.

Lady Sybil, in fact, made room for him by her side, and he fancied that there was a gleam of reproach in her eyes as she looked up at him.
"Is Medchester really so large a place that one can get lost in it ?" she asked.

"Lord Arranmore has been sending messengers in every direction ever since we decided upon our little excursion.
"I telephoned to your office, sent a groom to your rooms and to the club, and at last we had given you up," Lord Arranmore remarked.
"And I," Sybil murmured, "was in a shocking bad temper." "It is very good of you all," Brooks remarked, cheerfully.

"I left the office rather early, and have been giving a sort of lecture to-night at the Secular Hall.

Then I went up to have a game of billiards with Mr.
Bullsom.