" Now, gentlemen....

" And the sitting of the board began.

"If they knew," he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he listened to the report, "what a guilty little boy their president was half an hour ago.

" And his eyes were laughing during the reading of the report.

Till two o'clock the sitting would go on without a break, and at two o'clock there would be an interval and luncheon.