i io WILD BROTHER 



club exists is the protection and propagation of 

 wild life. I think that none of our members here 

 present have ever heard of a more noble example 

 of animal protection than has been carried out by 

 this kind-hearted woman. I should like to offer 

 an amendment to the previous motion. I move, 

 sir, that the chair appoint two men to pass with 

 hats around these tables.'* 



Amidst great applause this motion was unani- 

 mously carried, and a moment later two black 

 derby hats were passing from hand to hand round 

 the hall. Presently these were returned to me full 

 and overflowing with green bank-notes. 



At midnight, when I walked down town to my 

 hotel, two men accompanied me, as body-guards, 

 for I was a traveling savings-bank, with all my 

 pockets filled with cash. 



"How did the evening go?" asked Mrs. Under- 

 wood on my return. 



"Oh, pretty well," I replied, as, emptying my 

 pockets, I hid the white bedspread beneath a 

 shower of paper money. 



"Oh, you have n't robbed a bank ?" she gasped. 



"Quite the opposite," I assured her, " This 

 money is going into a bank. It's a gift from a group 

 of red-blooded men who wish to honor and help a 

 woman whom they believe to be worthy of great 

 respect. You can guess who she is." 



