My name is Howard Devar, and I'll stand for John D.all the time against the noble Earl and any God's quantity of blue-blooded, full-blooded Hungarians." Each member of the animated group was gazing at Devar's boyish, self-possessed, well-chiseled face, when another interruption held them agog.

A stout, middle-aged man, followed by a stouter matron, bustled into the circle.

The newcomers were just as clearly Americans as the Earl was English, and the man cried angrily: "Who says that John D.Curtis is a tough?
I'm his uncle." "And I'm his aunt," chimed in the lady.
"Of Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana," said the man.
"Mr.and Mrs.Horace P.Curtis," announced the lady.
"Shake!" said Devar.

"I heard about you to-day on board the _Lusitania_.

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