don't you think this might make even one's mother or sisters a—a bit apprehensive, you know?"
"A bit apprehensive, Mr. Dunneston?" the American laughed. "I hope it will, if it will enable me to get them to England sometime to see something outside of a cathedral town! That's why I want to send it. You can't appreciate it, of course, sir. Your family connection with the 'circuit' is too remote."
"But I didn't mean that, you know," the Englishman corrected. "I didn't mean make them apprehensive about the towns. The towns should soon be safe enough again. I meant, rather, might you not make even—even one's mother and sisters just a bit apprehensive, you know? Or—oh, I see," the Briton comprehended, as he saw what part of the paper Preston had been reading. "You weren't reading the editorial."
"The editorial," the American answered. "What is it?"
He answered himself as he turned to it hur-
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