A.V.C.

It does look nice," the girl whispered complacently, as she clasped the chain, and saw the exquisite jewel resting against the whiteness of her neck, "and I wonder what those twisted letters A.V.C. mean?

But how comes it that your mother possessed this pendant with the letters A.V.C.?

"A.V.C. would have been some ancestor of yours, no doubt?" he asked jocularly, and with another wink at his companion.

"A.V.C.," the young man said slowly, deciphering the monogram, which, in exquisitely-chased gold, surmounted the pendant itself.

It did show that, in the A.V.C., he had failed to take a strong stand against the Communist faction, had even seemed at times to collaborate with them "to save the organization."