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Mrs. Le Roy Jennings looked up from her task of drafting the new

Resolution to be presented to Parliament by the League of Equal Sex

Rights and Complete Emancipation for Women, as a diminutive,

half-starved servant brought in a letter on a tray.

Mrs. Jennings took the missive, and frowning threateningly at the girl, who withdrew to the dark recesses of the servants' quarters, opened it by slitting its throat with a terrific paper-knife.