BUT MR.

COURTLAND----AH, NEVER MIND! Mr.Ayrton entertained his daughter with a description of the scene in the House incidental to the annihilation of Mr.Apthomas.He rather thought himself that his counter-question had been neat.

He had been congratulated on it by quite a number of his friends in the tea room, and six messages had been delivered to him by representatives of the press to the effect that if he could provide them with the exact text of his counter-question they would be greatly obliged.
"They mean to report it in full ?" said Phyllis.

She had an ample experience of the decimation of his questions as well as speeches by the members of the press gallery.

They had reduced it to a science.
"I am much mistaken if they don't comment on it as well," said her father.