"And do you Mean to Say," he Remarked, "that you really Waste this on Dramatic Critics?" 

 His Gaze finally Came to Rest on the Barrel of the Mauser Pistol 

 "I will Tell you the Whole Story if you Like, Aunt Fanny" 

 The Lady from Long Acre 

 CHAPTER I  "TIGER" BUGG VERSUS "LIGHTNING" LOPEZ 

 Lady Jocelyn sighed gently and put down her cup on the tea-table. 

 "I suppose, Tony," she said, "that when one gets to seventy-two, one's conscience begins to decay just as one's body does. I seem to like good people less and immoral and useless ones more. You are the only member of the family it gives me the faintest pleasure to see nowadays." 

 Sir Antony Raymond Fulk Desmoleyn Conway—Conway Bart., more commonly known as Tony, nodded his head. 

 "They are rather a stuffy lot the others, aren't they!" he answered cheerfully.  "Who's been round to see you?" 

 "Only Laura and Henry as yet."  Lady Jocelyn spoke with some thankfulness. 

 "Well, that's enough," observed Tony.  "Ten minutes with either of them always makes me feel I want to do something improper." 

 "Allowing for age and infirmity," said Lady Jocelyn, "they have a rather similar effect on me." 

 Tony laughed.  "So you have heard all about my misdeeds?" 

 "I would hardly go as far as that. They were only here for two hours. You may smoke you know, Tony, if you want to." 

 He lighted a cigarette.  "Tell me, Aunt Fanny," he pleaded.  "There is no pleasure in blackening the family name unless one hears what the family says about it." 

 "The family," remarked Lady Jocelyn, "has a good deal to say about it. They consider that not only are you wasting your own life in the most deplorable manner, but that your methods of amusing yourself are calculated to bring a certain amount of discredit upon your more distinguished relatives. Henry attributes it 

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