"
"And you think that he is on the right track?"
"I really believe so," he answered. "In fact I am strongly in favour of
making experiments in the direction he spoke of. By the bye, Miss
Scott, I have something to tell you. You remember telling me about Lord
Arranmore and his refusal to subscribe to the Unemployed Fund?"
"Yes!"
"He has been approached again--the facts have been more fully made
known to him, and he has sent a cheque for one thousand pounds."
She received the news with a coldness which he found surprising.
"I think I can guess," she said, quietly, "who the second applicant was."
"I went to see him myself," he admitted.
"You must be very eloquent," she remarked, with a smile which he could
not quite understand. "A thousand pounds is a great deal of money."
"It is nothing to Lord Arranmore," he answered.
"Less than nothing," she admitted, readily. "I would rather that he had
stopped in the street and given half-a-crown to a hungry child."
"Still--it is a magnificent gift," he declared. "We can open all our
relief stations again.
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