110 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 ¢wo 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 ivto 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.” 
