aterial loss
you may have incurred which is not covered by your plate-glass
insurance."

There followed, written in ink, a considerable number of signatures.
These were headed by the Dean, and included the names of most of the
canons and minor canons, four Dissenting ministers, and about a hundred
others belonging to all classes in and near the cathedral city.

True, there were certain regrettable omissions, but fortunately neither
Mr. and Mrs. Head nor Anna seemed aware of it. One such omission was
that of the Catholic priest. Great pressure had been brought to bear on
him, but perhaps because there was little doubt that members of his
congregation had been concerned in the outrage, he had obstinately
refused to sign the Address. More strange and regrettable was the fact
that Miss Forsyth's name was also omitted from the list. In answer to a
personal appeal made to her by the Dean, who had himself gone to the
trouble of calling in order to obtain her signature, she had explained
that she never did give her signature. She had made the rule thirty
years ago, and she saw no reason for breaking it to-day.

* * * * *

Anna looked up from the paper, and her pale blue, now red-rimmed, eyes
sparkled with congratulation. "This is good!" she exclaimed in German.
"Very, very good!"

Her host answered in English, "Truly I am gratified. It is a
compensation to me for all I have gone through these last few days."

"Yes," said Polly quickly. "And as you see, Mrs. Bauer, we are to be
really compensated. We were thinking only yesterday that the damage
done--I mean the damage by which we should be out of pocket--was at
least L15. But, as Alfred says, that was putting it very low. He thinks,
and I quite agree--don't you, Mrs. Bauer?--that it would be fair to put
the damage down at--let me see, what did you say, Alfred?"

"According to my calculation," he said cautiously, "I think we may truly
call it twenty-seven pounds ten shillings and ninepence."

"That," said Polly, "is allowing for the profit we should certainly have
made on the articles those wretches stole out of the windows. I think
it's fair to do that, don't you, Mrs. Bauer?"

"Indeed yes--that thoroughly to agree I do!" exclaimed Anna.

And then rather sharply, perhaps a trifle anxiously, Alfred Head leant
over to his visitor, and looking at her very straight, he said, "And do
you bring any news to-night? Not that there ever