"Am I a member?"

"Yes, we thought you'd like to be one, so I gave your name in."

"I think a man must pledge his own honour. He can't have it done for
him."

"There's no public ceremony. You can just pledge yourself in your
mind, and then put a pledge card in one of the windows."

"I'll have tea first," I said, "and then I'll choose the window, and
then I'll pledge myself in my mind."

"No, you can do the pledging now."

"I've done it, while you were talking."

"And after all it's only the old rations according to Lord DEVONPORT,
and we've been working under them for some time now."

"So we have," I said; "but of course the card in the window makes all
the difference."

R.C.L.

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[Illustration: THE SERVANT PROBLEM.