‘ Fellow-citizens,’ said Temple—he was ft stump speaker in campaign times—‘l haven t a word to say. I’m to be married a month from to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock.’ Park, King and O’Ryan, who was the youngest of the lot and the most vindictive and hardened bachelor I ever saw, which was why We called him the star bachelor, seemed td be dn£ed by this teVelatidn, added to the to rise in respousii. ,j <- ' t <> i ». ‘ Gentlemofl and brothers,* hnsajd, 1 I might be able to,say what.l thought ofthe disclosures which have, heen’made here this .evening, but really It would bo very unbecoming of me to say anything. My wedding day is set for Wednesday two Weeks.*' As King went down, Park came flf*. ‘I can only say, gentlemen,’ he said, almost in a whisper, * that I am no worse than those who have preceded me. I can off j r no cen sure, for the day after to-morrow I shall be married to the one woman in the world for me,’

This was rubbing it in. We who had pre ceded Park felt that it was enough to have confessed our crime without glorying in it. and when Arcturua O’Kyall arose I almost helped that He wduld sdathti t*ark with actfrn. He, siobd aii ( arrdw, O^yan was the Handsomest man,,in the fJotefier and looked at- trie, then m turn. ettjCn or the others. I felt that the lightnings of his wrath would stride us all, and strike, hard, but 1 had less fear than if I had .bad, to stand the blow alone. However, I quqonsciously braced my self as he began speaking. r •Mr Chief and fellow-memhero of the Coterie,’ he said, in that majestic and over powering manner of his. * I am pained beyond all expression at what I have hoard here this evening. I had expected something better of you. I had hoped you would set me, the youngest member of this a better example. But you have failed failed Utterly. 