ake-down'll do----"

Grantly's head fell back against the chair, and he closed his eyes in
proof of his somnolence.

"All right," said Eloquent, "you come with me."

With some difficulty he got Grantly upstairs and into his own room.
Before the meeting he had told the servants they need not sit up for
him; his own was the only other bed made up in the house. Grantly lay
down upon it, muddy boots and all, and turned sideways with a sigh of
satisfaction; but just before he settled off he opened his eyes and
said warningly:

"I say, if I was you I wouldn't go about with young Rabbich--he's a
wrong 'un--you may take it from me, he really is--he'll do you no
good--Don't you be seen about with him."

"Thank you," Eloquent said dryly, "I will follow your advice."

"That's right," Grantly murmured, "never be 'bove taking advice."

And in another minute he was fast asleep. Eloquent covered him with a
railway rug, thinking grimly the while that it seemed to have become
his mission in life to cover up prostrated Ffolliots.

He went downstairs, made up the fire, and lay down on the hard sofa in
his dining-room, and slept an intermittent feverish sleep, in which
dreadful visions of Mary between two policemen, mingled with the
declaration of the poll, which proclaimed Mr Brooke to have been
elected member for Marlehouse by an enormous majority.

At six o'clock he got up. In half an hour his servants would be
stirring, and Grantly must be got out of the house before they appeared.

He went to the kitchen, got a little teapot and cups, and made some
tea. Then he went to rouse Grantly.

This was difficult, as he couldn't raise his voice very much because of
the servants, and Grantly was sleeping heavily. At last, by a series
of shakes and soft punches, he succeeded in making him open his eyes.
Eloquent had already turned up the gas, and the room was full of light.

There is a theory extant that a man shows his real character when he is
suddenly aroused out of sleep. That if he is naturally surly, he will
be surly then; if he is of an amiable disposition, he is good-natured
then.

Grantly sat up with a start and swung his feet off the bed. "Mr
Gallup," he said very gently, "I can't exactly remember what I'm doing
here, but I do apologise."

"That's all right," Eloquent said awkwardly. "I thought perhaps you'd
like to get home before the servants were about, and it's six o'clock.
Come and have a cup of tea."

"M