pieces of baggage was dumped
upon the dock while a grinning audience of inspectors, reporters, and
stevedores gathered about the unhappy pair.

"What a country!" Archie fumed while the inspector was summoning his
superior officer.

"No wonder Americans prefer to live abroad," he remarked loftily to a
convenient reporter, who was preparing copy with his eager eyes.

"We won't live here, will we!" Adelle chorused to her husband.

"Not much!"

"To treat decent people like this, just because they have a few clothes
and things. What do they take us for--hoboes?" Archie continued.

He forgot that he had departed from his native land a scant two years
before with a lean dress-suit case and a small trunk. Also that his wife
and indirectly himself were among the beneficiaries of the law they had
tried to evade. The reporter, who had appraised the pair more
expeditiously than the inspector had their goods, hypocritically drew
them out, asking their opinion of America and Americans, which Archie
set forth volubly.

When the inspectors finally came upon deposits of Adelle's jewelry which
she had skillfully concealed in the toes of her shoes, they declared the
game off and sent all the trunks forthwith to the stores. Their case was
so serious that it must be dealt with specially. The pair finally left
the dock, much chagrined, feeling as nearly like common criminals as
they were ever likely to feel; indeed, somewhat frightened and much less
voluble in protest, whatever their opinion of their fatherland might
still be. It was evidently a serious affair they had got themselves in
for by their perfectly natural desire to save a few dollars at the
expense of the Government.

The next morning when they awoke in the Eclair Hotel, which still
remained B----'s best hostelry, where they had consoled themselves by
taking an expensive suite and ordering a good dinner, they found that
their arrival in America was not unheralded. The reporter had not been
idle. His description of Archie was unkind, and his satirical report of
the couple's sayings and doings was unfriendly. He had somehow
discovered Adelle's connection with Clark's Field, the story of which in
a much garbled form he gave to the public and incidentally doubled the
size of her fortune,--"drawn from one of the most unblushing pieces of
real estate promotion this State has ever seen." Altogether it was the
kind of article to make the conservative gentlemen of the Washington