The House was to meet on that very day, and he intended to begin his parliamentary duties at once if he should find it possible to get some one to accompany him; He felt that he should lack courage to go down to Westminster Hall alone, and explain to the policeman and door-keepers that he was the man who had just been elected member for Loughshane.

So about noon he went into the Reform Club, and there he found a great crowd of men, among whom there was a plentiful sprinkling of members.

Erle saw him in a moment, and came to him with congratulations.
"So you're all right, Finn," said he.
"Yes; I'm all right,--I didn't have much doubt about it when I went over." "I never heard of a fellow with such a run of luck," said Erle.

"It's just one of those flukes that occur once in a dozen elections.

Any one on earth might have got in without spending a shilling." Phineas didn't at all like this.