The reformed Liberal had a plan.

"I will go for him," exclaimed he. "Angus will trust me--he doesn't know Ihave turned. I'll go for Harold Thomas, and Angus will give him to mewithout a word, skinnykin' I'm a friend," he concluded, brazenly.

"Look at that now!" exclaimed the member elect. "Say, childs, you'd knowhe had been a Grit--no honest, open-faced Conservative would ever skinnykof a trick like that!"

"There is nothing like experience to make a man able to look at everyside," said the reformed one, with becoming modesty.

An hour later Angus was roused from his bed by a loud knock on thedoor. Angus had gone to bed with his clothes on, knowing that thesewere troublesome times.