ly at him. "Ask that
fighting man over there."

"You were fighting. I saw you," insisted the policeman.

"Did you?" said Larry. "I am rather pleased to hear you say it, but I
knew nothing of it."

"Look here, Sergeant," shouted Smart above the uproar. "Oh, it's you,
Mac. You know me. You've got the wrong man. There's the man that started
this thing. He deliberately attacked me. Arrest him."

Immediately there were clamorous counter charges and demands for arrest
of Smart and his student crew.

"Come now," said Sergeant Mac, "keep quiet, or I'll be takin' ye all
into the coop."

Order once more being restored, the speaker resumed by repudiating
indignantly the accusation of his young friend. Far be it from him to
impugn the loyalty of the great Liberal party, but he was bound to say
that while the Liberals might be themselves loyal both to the Dominion
and to the Empire, their policy was disastrous. They were sound enough
in their hearts but their heads were weak. After some further remarks
upon the fiscal issues between the two great political parties and after
a final wave of the imperial flag, the speaker declared that he now
proposed to leave the rest of the time to their distinguished fellow
citizen, the Honourable J. J. Allen.

Mr. Allen found himself facing an audience highly inflamed with passion
and alert for trouble. In a courteous and pleasing introduction he
strove to allay their excited feelings and to win for himself a hearing.
The matter which he proposed to bring to their attention was one of the
very greatest importance, and one which called for calm and deliberate
consideration. He only asked a hearing for some facts which every
Canadian ought to know and for some arguments based thereupon which they
might receive or reject according as they appealed to them or not.

"You are all right, Jim; go to it," cried an enthusiastic admirer.

With a smile Mr. Allen thanked his friend for the invitation and assured
him that without loss of time he would accept it. He begged to announce
his theme: "The Imperative and Pressing Duty of Canada to Prepare to do
Her Part in Defence of the Empire." He was prepared frankly and without
hesitation to make the assertion that war was very near the world and
very near our Empire and for the reason that the great military power
of Europe, the greatest military power the world had ever
seen--Germany--purposed to make war, was ready for war, and was waiting
only a fav