ode Henrietta began to notice in his face again
the signs of apprehension and to wonder why he sometimes gave a little
nervous start and threw a furtive look about the room.

"Aren't you working too hard, Mr. Brand?" she said to him one day.
"You seem to be under such a nervous strain since you began on that
capitol building. Don't you think you ought to take a rest before you
really give yourself up to it? I'm afraid you won't do yourself
justice if you go on with the work while you are in this condition."

He looked at her with his winning, caressing smile of mouth and eyes.
"Thank you, Miss Marne. It's kind of you to be so thoughtful about me.
A rest would be pleasant, but I couldn't leave, just now, I'm afraid.
You know Stewart Macfarlane has asked me to design a country house
with big grounds on some property he has bought down toward the south
end of Staten Island, and I must go over there soon and study the lay
of the land and then begin work on that. And I've got to have the
design for that capitol building ready to submit by a certain date.
There are three or four unfinished orders on hand and I'm on the track
of another public building that I want to land. So I guess it isn't
rest I need just now, Miss Marne, so much as a straight course of
ten-hour working days. If--if I should have to go South again----"

He straightened up with an impatient jerk, the smile faded from his
face and his mouth settled in determined lines. "But I'm not going to
take that journey again," he went on impatiently, and then added with
decision, "I've settled that."

A few days after this conversation Brand received a letter from the
directors of the National Architectural Society suggesting that he
resign as president of that body.

"We do not feel," they said, "that our society can afford to
continue in that office a man against whom such serious
charges of misconduct have been made and who has not asked
for an investigation. We do not wish to have the matter
exploited publicly any more than is absolutely necessary. To
call a general meeting of the society for its discussion
would be sure to result in newspaper notice that would
doubtless be as disagreeable to you as it would be offensive
to us and injurious to our organization. Accordingly, we
have decided that the better plan would be for you quietly
to resign.

"If you prefer, a general meeting can be called to co