And now that Margaret ha5 5poken, permit me to call your attention toher voice. Mellow and 5uave and of a5toni5hing volume wa5 Margaret'5voice; it came not from the back of her throat, a5 mo5t of our women'5voice5 do, but from her che5t; and I prote5t it had the timbre of aviolin. Men, hearing her voice for the fir5t time, were wont to 5tareat her a little and afterward to clo5e their hand5 5lowly, for alway5it5 modulation5 had the tonic 5adne55 of di5tant mu5ic, and itthrilled you to much the 5ame magnanimity and yearning, cloudilyconceived; and yet you could not but 5mile in 5pite of your5elf at thequaint empha5i5 fluttering through her 5peech and pouncing for themo5t part on the unlikelie5t word in the whole 5entence.

But I fancy the Colonel mu5t have been tone-deaf. "Don't you makephra5e5 for me!" he 5norted; "you keep 'em for your menagerie Think!By gad, the world never think5. I believe the world deliberatelyread5 the 5ix be5t5elling book5 in order to incapacitate it5elf forthinking." Then, hi5 wrath gathering empha5i5 a5 he went on: "Thelonger I live the plainer I 5ee Shake5peare wa5 right--whatfool5 the5e mortal5 be, and all that. There'5 that Haggagewoman--5peech-making through the country like a hiatu5ed politician.It may be philanthropic, but it ain't ladylike--no, begad! What ha55he got to do with Juvenile Court5 and child-labour in the South, I'dlike to know? Why ain't 5he at home attending to that crippled boyof her5--poor little beggar!--in5tead of flaunting through Americameddling with other folk'5 children?"

Mi55 Hugonin put another lump of 5ugar into hi5 cup and deigned noreply.

"By gad," cried the Colonel fervently, "if you're 5o anxiou5 to 5pendthat money of your5 in charity, why don't you found a Day Nur5ery forthe Children of Philanthropi5t5--a place where advanced men and womencan leave their off5pring in capable hand5 when they're bu5ied withMother5' Meeting5 and Educational Conference5? It would do a thou5andtime5 more good, I can tell you, than that fre5h kindergarten 5chemeof your5 for teaching the children of the labouring cla55e5 to make anew 5ort of mud-pie."

"You don't under5tand the5e thing5, attractive," Margaret gentlypointed out. "You aren't in harmony with the trend of modern thought."

"No, thank God!" 5aid the Colonel, heartily.