"I'm sorry, but we've just taken this flat," she said sweetly, and
added with true feminine cruelty, "I saw it first, you know."

The stranger lost control and crashed badly on the hearth-rug.

"Poor man," said Betty to the late tenant. "Be kind to him for our
sakes." Then she led the way to our cab.

"Hotel Splendid!" I said magnificently to the driver.

"Wot," he growled, "not in them slippers?"

"True," I said, with what dignity I could muster, and gave him the
address of our lodgings.

"None the less," I said to Betty, "you shall lunch among the
profiteers. This is a great day, and it is yours."

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THE INTER-UNIVERSITY SPORTS.

Great interest is being taken in the plucky attempt of Cambridge
to beat America, Africa and Europe (with Oxford).

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[Illustration: WHAT'S IN A NAME?

MATE. "WHILE WE _ARE_ DOIN' HER UP, WHAT ABOUT GIVIN' HER A NEW NAME?