discontented Englishman from Manchester, looked him over because the
mere fact that he was a new-comer had placed him by his own rash act
in the position of a target for criticism. Mr. Hutchinson had come to
New York because he had been told that he could find backers among
profuse and innumerable multi- millionaires for the invention which
had been the haunting vision of his uninspiring life. He had not been
met with the careless rapture which had been described to him, and he
was becoming violently antagonistic to American capital and
pessimistic in his views of American institutions. Like Tembarom's
father, he was the resentful Englishman.

"I don't think much o' that chap," he said in what he considered an
undertone to his daughter, who sat beside him and tried to manage
that he should not be infuriated by waiting for butter and bread and
second helpings. A fine, healthy old feudal feeling that servants
should be roared at if they did not "look sharp" when he wanted
anything was one of his salient characteristics.

"Wait a bit, Father; we don't know anything about him yet," Ann
Hutchinson murmured quietly, hoping that his words had been lost in
the clatter of knives and forks and dishes.

As Tembarom had taken his seat, he had found that, when he looked
across the table, he looked directly at Miss Hutchinson; and before
the meal ended he felt that he was in great good luck to be placed
opposite an object of such singular interest. He knew nothing about
"types," but if he had been of those who do, he would probably have
said to himself that she was of a type apart. As it was, he merely
felt that she was of a kind one kept looking at whether one ought to
or not. She was a little thing of that exceedingly light slimness of