"They 're mostly young fellows here to-night, but we have married men, too.

Of course, we 're very careful about that," he added hastily, as though he might have injured Shelton's prejudices--"that, and drink, and anything criminal, you know." "And do you give pecuniary assistance, too ?" "Oh yes," replied the little man; "if you were to come to our committee meetings you would see for yourself.

Everything is most carefully gone into; we endeavour to sift the wheat from the chaff." "I suppose," said Shelton, "you find a great deal of chaff ?" The little man smiled a suffering smile.

The twang of his toneless voice sounded a trifle shriller.
"I was obliged to refuse a man to-day--a man and a woman, quite young people, with three small children.

He was ill and out of work; but on inquiry we found that they were not man and wife." There was a slight pause; the little man's eyes were fastened on his nails, and, with an appearance of enjoyment, he began to bite them.
Shelton's face had grown a trifle red.
"And what becomes of the woman and the children in a case like that ?" he said.
The little man's eyes began to smoulder.
"We make a point of not encouraging sin, of course.