He must get right away out of here--to-night. He must have his car
brought round from the garage--now--to a side door....

But first he sat down to the writing-table, and wrote quickly:

_Dear Duchess,_

_I regret I am called away on urgent political business...._

_Yours faithfully_ _J. Perkins...._

He took the morocco leather case out of his pocket and enclosed it,
with the note, in a large envelope.

Then he pressed the electric button by his bedside, almost feeling
that this was a signal for the Dawn to rise without more ado....




SOME DAMNABLE ERRORS ABOUT CHRISTMAS

_By_

G.K. CH*ST*RT*N


That it is human to err is admitted by even the most positive of our
thinkers. Here we have the great difference between latter-day thought