"Perhaps she has not come into your line of country?" suggested Mr.
Mangles, not unkindly.

"No--I think not."

"Her line is--at present--prisons."

"I have never been in prison," replied Cartoner.

"No doubt you will get experience in course of time," said Mr. Mangles,
with his deep, curt laugh. "No, sir, my sister is a lecturer. She gets
on platforms and talks."

"What about?" asked Cartoner.

Mr. Mangles described the wide world, with a graceful wave of his cigar.

"About most things," he answered, gravely; "chiefly about women, I take
it. She is great on the employment of women, and the payment of them.
And she is right there. She has got hold of the right end of the stick
there. She had found out what very few women know--namely, that when
women work for nothing, they are giving away something that nobody
wants. So Jooly goes about the world lecturing on women's employment,
and pointing out to the public and the administration many ways in which
women may be profitably employed and paid. She leaves it to the gumption
of the government to discover for themselves that there is many a nice
berth for which Jooly P. Mangles is eminently suited, but governments
have no gumption, sir. And--"