And, having argued to a conclusion, it mattered not to either that Miss Meiggs stood looking out at them with supreme contempt.


AN ALUMNI DINNER.


An Alumni Dinner.

"And it's we who have to rustle
In the cold, cold world!"

Dr. Williamson's landlady would not listen any further. She stood on the threshold of her lodger's combination of bedroom and office and said, with an offensively clear enunciation:

"You haven't any patients, and no more have I any longer, and I want that money to-morrow or I rent the room."