The San Francisco call., 1906-06-17

| apparent to the dullest among his listen
ers that the question had undergone a
! transformation in his hands. 1t was not
what the United States would or would
not do. or what stand the other Euro
pean countries would take-save Eng
land. England, English policy, English
aggression, English tyranny were being
arraigned. and at every disparaging al
| lusion to the feared and hated country.
the young Irishmen, who seemed to con-
stitute the majority of the audience, ap-
plauded vigorously.
| At the end Of the fifteen minutes al
lotted to Gordon, Winslow's gavel fell,
but not a word did the presiding officer
utter on the liberties which had been
taken with the question.
| There was an expression on Vaughan's
| face as he came to his face which none
| of that company had seen there before.
| He believed that into this plot. which
] he now at last discerned. had entered
nearly every one of those watchful,
! smiling men and women before him. 1t
! had been all arranged. AS an English
man he had been selected to receive the
| insults and indignities these people were
only too ready to offer to the mother
country. The question under debate had
nothing whatever to do with the case;
anything would serve, so that they had
an opportunity to tease and annoy him.
Somewhat of the revolt and the resist
ance which entered into him when he
spared with Poole in the rear room
of Poole and Pitchers vibrated in his
voice as he took up the challenge Bob
| Gordon flung down. He bowed to the
chairman and the audience, let his gaze
wander over the rows of young Irishmen
! against the wall, over the ranks of men
/ ana min nd
down to the chairs where sat the people
from Richmond 4till Here one pair OF
Keen, earnest gray eyes held his own
Tor an instant, with an expression of in
dlgnant sympathy and resolute good
Will; the anger which had filed him soft
ened and a humorous view of the situa-
tlon succeeded, for moment, the bitter
one.
he told Of Judge Lansing's illpess,
asked and received permission to occupy
not only his ewn fifteen minutes, buf the
time allotted to the Judge. then briefly
reviewed the speech made by Gordon
showing how the question had been
tampered with. but accepting 1t as it had
been interpreted. When he took his seat
the gray eyes thanked him for his tenn
perance and self-control There was a
MID outbreak of respectful applause led
Dy sundry determined explosions from
the corner where Dick and 10 sat.
vaughan glanced thither. beckened Dick
10 MIN and gave him a whispered direc-
! tlon Dick nodded and presently brought
naH dozen books from the study; these
vaughan hastily glanced through and sci
aside
Penrose had the half-hour speech. BY
THIS time not only those amang the COM
pany who had been made aware before
hand OF the trick to be played upon the
parsen, but every one else In the church
comprehended clearly what sort of q
tournament the debate had become. The
taii OF the British Lion was to be twisted
Ihey were to have the exquisite pleasure
Of hearing him roar.
Penrose had brought to the meeting, as
mad Gordon all the arguments that he
could possibly use. but, unlike the miner
ne had had some one to show him how tC
use them.
whereas Bob came out boldly and deali
siedse- hammer blows, right and left. Pen
rose, armed with Winslow's neat rapier
made little. quick, singing trusts
/ When he spoke of George the Third and