The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Spooks

It was a pretty successful haunt," he said; "and possibly, now that Mrs. Hawkins and your daughters--"

"Who?" I cried. "Mrs. What, and my which?"

"Your wife and children," he replied. "Now that the local chapter has attended to them, maybe you'll apologize to me for your boorish behavior at Florence."

"Those people were nothing to me," said I. "That was a boarding-school you have driven crazy. I was merely coming here to lecture--