Two little fibs for Miss Gloria; yet, certainly, very small fibs which hurt no one.

He has been, from the necessities of his position, a man of the world and a politician, and he is as ready as Mr. Bertie-Tremaine's guests in Endymion to talk of "that heinous subject on which enormous fibs are ever toldthe Registration."

Then Pet would say, telling an innocent fib: "I don't observe anything very wrong, Mrs. Crull.

" We must not suppose that the declaration would be a pure fib, or anything like it.

And if Janet comewhich I hardly think possiblethou must fly to her lighted taper and blow it out, and tell some sweet fib,say the light pains thine eyes.