I attended a meeting at Westminster an hour ago, and I was entrusted with this commission to you." Mr.Stenson sat down suddenly.
"God bless my soul!" he exclaimed.

"You--Julian Orden!" There was a moment's silence.

Mr.Stenson, however, was a man of immense recuperative powers.

He assimilated the new situation without further protest.
"You have given me the surprise of my life, Orden," he confessed.

"That, however, is a personal matter.