“Whatever old thing happens,” his master took him up.
“Not to you, sir. Oh, I hope, sir, that nothing—”
Mr. Temple Barholm put a cheerful hand on his shoulder.
“Nothing’s going to happen that’ll hurt any one. Things may change, that’s all. You and Rose are all right, Miss Alicia’s all right, I’m all right. Come along. Got to catch that train.”
In this manner he took his departure.
(To be continued)
THE MOST IMPORTANT YEAR
THIS number of THE CENTURY closes its eighty-sixth volume, and the November number will begin what we confidently believe will be the most important year in the history of this magazine. The period through which we are living is, in its display of scientific accomplishment and clashing social forces, the most broadly significant and humanly spectacular in our forty-three years of existence, and it is our ambition to be, as nearly as possible, representative of the times in which we live.