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•ho reached out 511s'hand 0nil grasped'
o d'Iolent im%itio l n' mlie'. •a3turo
� a fib1l of ParcanielnL.' ( b
'an cl I' u.`Y Sc'1Pe$ `. looked as though it.had been well re
hoarsed).-', Fie unrolled the 'parelintOit
EL1GHT-FUL IRONY ' on his luno(, and this balling dialogue'
took pisco:• '
severiey 111 bn s Deserlbes 1-lts Visit "George Washington," he said, "was
'tU" Big ,5111 'in' "The Worlds Work." the father of ottr-country:'
'the anterooms ` of the groat aro Quite.
lently eloquent of the inen'to whom I novena George Washington.'`
they' lead Onc used to approach the ,"Quite."
Ate Lord 4urzon through chilled. and "This Is- a copy of the Americ
pfty•ooriidors-in the manner -of Louis •Constitution."
'Oottchea 'i r lite Empire style, The "America doctsai t meddle i
q'gad` to Lloyd .G'egrgo,- on_the otliei' 'fairs of other nations."'
"Z' ud ^lead@'throngh'ia homely cloor'in" '°Quito."•
3)51elsea; :painted; a;;cheertnl green; re- "pV ell t"
looked, at me as' though expect
iYoXent of oPtilnism, White. 'walls°, - Ile loo
atarkly;siilPlo oondaeted -One to Bet, , ing me to eay Somethings. ''I, was at';a
*ad' Shaw's apart tient.in tate Adelphi dose, ,I: was waiting tr5atie'ntly, for,
And an iron "gate; securely loclted, bar -r; hitt-1'h) 'Sag somethings ,l5o;lar ,he diad
••r e1 - the i opulace• frotu- ^ascen'clittg the, : •oply delivered. lthneelf .of four moral
•staircase ;filet led; to the• sage's study:,, platitudes It wee my turn to say
And sa it, weul�nueed,no, Picttjre' sttniod:'and I did: WhsreuPon he re.
I>elntes tb fob a esu '
l Mayor= Thompgonsminil rrrerOly Wliaso theeofeio, should'other •saes'
by• o1 ying the proparatoiy para tione • meddle lir the affairs of Ameri-.
•phernalia, of his otitco i lead; received ca ?"
O hurried'Ca11 to that efliCe which Is'% But what -nation le actually mad-
e tuateri'iu a va$t' Chibego.'hotel an11 dung?"''
clued thither Precipitated MYSelE `'vith' So surprised was he at, Pale naive
'su0h hasto'that I fe[irod I should have • gttestiou that his cigar, ' whish -had
little titn,e to collect my tbopghts be- mow: the consistency of damp sea
:lore being ushered;pato the Presence. weed, fell svith 6,du11 splash on to the
However, as ft. hapbened, I had a good Doer. It was; picked up by, an attend-
Iiefhour to wait, in an atmosphere, rut and deposited with its fellows in
•of .Clicking typewriters' and buzzing the `waste basket, "What nation Is,
`telephones, before site' was. ready for. meddling?', 'roared his Honor. "What
me, And. that half -home , in view of nation is , .. Here! Look at that
the strange' objects' wit), which the book infrontof you
obits( .,Was filled, was .by no means He pointed to a small -blue volume
KYI and,' await ;itis 3106001 upon' Quite:' u -fife tib -
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•wastoil, that lay on the table. I' took it up., It
pint the pictures What immedi- was. a copy of •Schlesinger a New
rr ,
tel :caught my ;attention: was four Viewpoints in Amel'ioan-Hist0ry:
P Y
Panels, ` enclosed: in a single:frame, . i'Tinrit to page 160:
each representitrg Mayor ,Thompson I.turaetl, o i marked
at some stage of his career: The first head the passage. that fl
icture'. showed a husky youth stand- in pencil. Then 'tell me' what' you P
Ing against a blue• slcy, contemplating think, not as an l;uglishman; but
a somewhat ;'misshapen football. tsmauan honest man."
Moral: this''is 'a real he -pian.) 'Tho The. 'Cause. of tile Trouble:
;second picture showed that youth >+
grown to maturity, a large pink face
beaming from-.alfove a highly starched
collar. ' (Moral: this is a kindly- red-
blooded man.) The third picture was
quite a tour de`force.-of imaginative'
art, for it portrayed' the. Mayor, magna,
-sired to tonne seventy times hie natural
size, perched on top of the City Hall,
from, which:position he surveyed the
world triumphantly (Moral: thin is' a'
Colossus.) 'The fourth picture'showed,
one trusts, the most vivid imagination
cif all, for . it appeared to be a• view
of the 'White House, slightly impreVed
Omni an architectural point. of view.
('.the moral of this is too obvious to
be indicated),,
As soon as I had observed these pic-
tures. 'I was happy to note that his
Honor, with that impartiality so be-
coming in tho great, had permitted a
picture of another American to be
hung beside his own, This was none
other than Lindbergh himself, and it.
was gratifying to read the Verso that,
was printed underneath, for it showed
^
that the'Mayor understood that so
supreme an •exploit could be cele
brated's only iu lyric words. Tho
*yds (am I Wrong in attributing
-them . to the Mayor himself?) ran as
lo11ows: •
'TheY'askod ruo how 8 did it
And I. pointed to that Scripture test:
„-!',I{eep-your light a'shining
- A. little in front of the nest"
His Artistic Tastes
A Silent Horn
lug .honestly, alarmed by their activi-
tie . - ,.
read therefore, Ihad begun Ito
heady,
realize -that. as far as the schoolbooks
were. concerned, the.Mayor's cam-
paign. was a ,farce. I was still, how-
ever, undecided as to whether he wee
honest 'in,his contention that George
V. was "conspiring" against Chicago.
The idea was so obviously -opera
bouffe that one hesitated to suggest
• At last, I bolt, I was at the heart of it to any person of adult intelligence,
the matter. Taking a deep. breath, I but here before me, apparently, was
read the passage. And since it was its originator, and I had to get at the
the only evidence that Thompson truth.
showed me, since it was presumably- Hence I began: "Now, about George
the most powerful argument that he j
had (to offer, it is only fair that it
should he'reproduced in .full.' • Bere
it 101
been esti stirring, for .apart iron isle
own evasions there `had been,, a corn;
Stant stream of coniUiotit from the
satoUitoa -, Thl sena+ of couamt lit was
evidently iistended'to dole filo !sane
lor. it fent 'Thomlisori b at to to ,toll tae:
t:ories in' vrrh1C1h he 'apPe teed ;it Ii ath-
er' u less 'dublous.diSht, At , (mailed
nufoflitly One of tliese atoned seems
to -nntl very well warth reheating, for
it net o, ly, ilrupiluates the corruption,
of a certaln section of the Press, but
also serves to clear Tliorpson 03
on`e quite mrivarrantod accusation.
,He said, to tae:. "l expect you have.
heard that .d ring the, war, I'pabltoly
`insulted J'offre by refusing to meet
—'—
g Increase
nits EXpOr
f yet ` t'ade,F ul•o I,ssu,ed ,
QIl
'decrease. in Import
London, Groat Britain's foreign
'trait( fignrmu for 19'27 •lust Published,
,show e)icouraging' increeSe; lib export(
Viand decrease in imports ash compared
with these for,1923. '
Imports totalled $ 5,944,61.3,682, a de-
crease of 6109,869,205 under those for
1626•
Exports totalled $3,466,888,835, 011
t1Fe 'statlgn: ' increaso' of 3230,292,664 over those for
I :tittered that such information 1926.
had indeed reached me, '
"Very Well.' Look at this." ,_ 'seemedi.;;brutal -and tragically de-
•; He pushed across the desk a press humanized. And atter them had roll -
Photograph and requested . me to.:ed a ,monstrous parade of ,alike, conk• ...
Study' it. I did, So. It sand
'PhomP Ing for all the wer14 like -biose drag
-
'son, Immaculately ran hatted and cravat-' ons ulna, it was be glory of 7 i}gush
ted, sitting in a car whose only other `heroes in the, mid hays to destroy.
occupants were Soffre . and Vivian!. They. passed • Uy..thaso young men in
Alithree men wore smiles 'of beaming the flower of youth, and the world
amiability." The picture wascertain- was • tho sweeter for their paesin
ly a record of'fact, and it appeared to since they had been twisted by civili-
tie a record of i sufficiently hapPY nation to grotesque and evilPurposes.
fart, "Got it?'°And wines they had gone there was
I intimated that; I had "got 11." nothing left 4 but a peaceful, English
"Very' Wolf, then. A 'certain news village; and the smoke coming from
paper -in Chicago printed -that picture. the cottages ,and the faint chime from
that, You: 00(1 .befci•c you, , in its. 12 a church that had once echoed to the
o'.cloek edition.. , iViien .the 8 o'clock' tramp of Cromwel's amen.
edition appeared, the picture had boon l Full Steam Ahead.
taken out; and •.In 868'place there was
'a story, that -3 'had. publicly insulted l Would it ever. stop?, Woulil' peace
Toifro by refusing tq meet him at the, ever come? And ;would .lt cone from
station •; and incorporated in 'that , sueli men as Thoni-psop� I looked at
story was a suggestion that, any Flrlr hIm again. He liras reading aloud
tisk, delegates would be Well advised from a pamphlet that lie had printed.
to keep 'away from Chicago for fear for his "America first" campaign.
that they would' be' subjected to stmt Phrase after 'phrase came -drifting
Ian insults: What d'you think of across the table, -each with a chorus
that?" � of approval from his attendants..
: Needless to say, 1 thought—as any 1 ' "Nair Old Glory to her masthead
i .docent person Would have ti'ronght .and keep her there."
that Tliontpson had heen.subjected tot "Send to Congress red-blooded
extremely shabby ;treatment, Americans."
"Maintain our national defenses in
6
AMan ofPoae.
n nave attack its:'
'I a
that. none trade each way
,,But it was net that story thatTobe prepared for war is one'of, the
tiro _
me think better of .him. , It wasmost effectual moans of preserving
answer -entirely unexpected—that he •nesse"
gave me just before I'left, oa the still-
"To tie prepared re aced for wart" At that
jest of international armaments. True, grisly mkt lie, which has killed three
thesudden
impression was only niomeutary million Young Europeans in the •last
a sudden hash, of light upon a start: ,decade, I. almost laughed aloud.` So
held—but it was strangely 'vivid while it had all been a dream. , That .mo -
it lasted. For suddenly„out of those montary 'vision o3- Thompson '• as a
lips that had been muttering inanities
and ,hollowphrases, there came a Peacemaker was a mere mirage.' Al-
ter all,' he was on the side of. the -old
passage that hue •both'stateswansli p regime, the big battalions, all the
and -vision, -Be said: 'I am a man of hideous apparatus of _carnage from
peace. You mayn't believe it; but I which we Eng.lishmen--at least, we
am. I believe that all American men S,oung 811a51ishmen-aro sU pitifully
are nt-heart men of peace, and I am ,
endeavoring to escape.' - A moment
quife convineod that no American To, later he declared his ,colors beyond
man Is .even again going• to`wo n o any•shadow of d0115(, by dictating -a
e
the mail who may send het sons to telegram to a "pacihst' (why is that
hght on foreign soil,
• do more than wish ;great word a sign of ,contempt?) —a.
"But we need to telegram that was as brutal (and inci-
for peace,' he continued. 'V e mutat: dentally, as ungrammatical) as was
will it. And one of•tlie finest ways of I the average recruiting pamphlet dun -
willing it, in my opinion, would be to j ing the tvAr.
incorporate 1n the body oT tlio Amerk l With that, I left him. I had enjoy-
can epouetittition a clause that made 1
it illegal for America to declare war od one of the most singular mornings
until after a'referenndum had been of my11f That
nohe is
but deulaagogue
taken by the great body of the nation. I is pa p
wit
And it wouldn't be only; the old n1eu'' could hon stl that have
e bed lee edc'Incl the
(the type which declare war so flip- campaign
ea
pantly, in lourope) who would vote on ,ting.. And Mayor Thompson is not a
that referendum. The young men, the half-wit. IIe is
ashrandl, coarse few ecru? las,
fighters themselves, would vote, and or'violent am
bitione the young women—the sisters and And yet, ie. some- ways, a pathetic
s=+• -would vote us well, In figure. For, in another ago, Thomp--
swoetlteait. 1 Sot the
that way I believe that you would son might have been great: ,
guard against the risk of, any war that ',him !clock u mala of P with ur red toyea s ;Ithaco
is
the nation had not willed with its P
heart and soul. And if a nation does back, and what might he not 110aa 111 a war ac -
r with its Heart and soul, I, complished? Sir Francis Drake would01
not have counted him 0005 his sturdiest
what is it hitt slaughter,” Amon.
u. The Spaniards would have
"And then?" I asked him, , 'h1r:i, And if he had
then, when we had altered our . quailed bacone
Conatitutidn, we could turn to other ,survived, Queen Elizabeth herself
nations, and say; 'if you aro in earn-. might have bestowed upon him one
est about Peace, f yen sincerely and el her most gracious smiles, and
honestly. Wish to' avoid uniiecossary -knighted ]tial 'Sir William Thdmp•
alter your constitutions in a son, Lord Mayor of London,'
wars,
similar manner':' ,%te leant over the Tho typo Who Follow.
table toward me. "Flava you arnY { Tho following I
vandered round the room'as 'to him. And also that he was not
(hos 1roud of having 3oneiso.
though to, find some other toy with particularly p
- '1iich to' placate maids persecutor, 1 But I obtained an admission a fete.
hut slime., none presented itself, ho minutes later. And. so significant �d i l
looked me straight in the eye once that admission appear to 'me, t
more. - Icopied it down, -Word for word, on his
"Are' Americaat chilch•en'- to be Ilonar's teak, under his honor's nose;
taught that—" We had ': .beau "discussing . the, letter
- I that a young American named Durant
This time -it wars my turnato ititoi I Presiding at Oxford, had just
rtipt, Ill n loud voice. I said: Amari- i Smith,
can children are certainly not to be published in The London DairyNews
fibs
taught that George Washington was a, condemning 'Thompson and l that
We RN both agreed upon that worlts: Thompson, referring
traitor: R e e
point. :What Iwant to View is if you letter, said:
reallythink that lKing.Go---" ' "Certain of my friends"—he paused,
In asttll louder voice ho cltasecl ,and' added quickly, "my emotional
away the phantom ot His Majesty. friends, have been inclined to deplore
V. n
RR interru ition. "I'm pot that I was 80 desperately endeavoring ,the existence of the Rhodos echo ars.
At once, 1 V. cin to materialize, Speaking very rapid- They have said" -(always "they," ' you
about about George Pial talking ly, he said: • observe) -"they hav'b said that young
about now., Washington. Americans selho go over-to-Oxford,be-
+ r Westo man seem A
cad
"When.
'tallied and
v
have' i h
you ri
is
ro B
"I know., But rl- seem imbued with p
b ut George .V, haven't you?" up to me and asked mo how my,p
• Wlhen the representatives of George
V. rendered homage' a few years ago
at the tomb of the great clisloyalist
and rebel' of a former century, George
'Washington, tate minds ,of - many
Americans roVerted, with a sense ot
bewilderment, to the times when an-
other Ding George was guiding the,
destinies of the British nations. The
fact is that the average American
still •accepts without-, qualification or.
question the partisan Justifications of
the struggle for independence which
have come down from the actual par-
tipipants in the -affair on the Ameri-
can side- 'These accounts, colored by.
the emotions and misunderstandings
of the times and, designed to arouse
the colonists to a warlike pitch
against the British Government, have
formed the basis of the tieatmeutg 1n "Well, a friend of mine said it wee Thomas Lipton. I knew Sir .Thomas
our school textbooks and have served about time that I had a tolopha-radio quite as ivell as the Mayor knew hint,
to perpetuate judgments of the Amsri- set so I could ring uti Buckingham and I hadn't coma to hear any more..
can Revolution which no fair -Minded Palace whenever 1 felt like speaking I had come to find out tt it•was pos-
111 i Three stele that the mayor of ono of tho
ac-
Making a nietttal note, to discover a6
Making
the earliest.opportufdty'the precise
Biblical origin of those words; .I re-
suinod my exannination of the room,
under the 'suspicious eyes of a num•,
her of secretaries, journalists, and'
satellites.' Stopping over a quantity
of spittoons, conveniently disposed, I
entered a. second anteroom, to be
...greeted by further evidences of the
Mayor's intellectual leanings. His
Honor's taste in music was happily
displayed by throe phonograph re-
cords bearing the title "Two Black
Crows: 1119 Honor's taste in art was
agreeably demonstrated by various
bronze figures of elephants and other
monarchs of the jungle, occasionally
relieved by a recumiront figure,•of a
Moorish females -executed in china and
daintily piclted.out in blue, yellow, and
red. His sense of the whimsical was
ao ,
He moved impatiently in his chair. tate war with Icing George was get -
"I want to ]snow, quite definitely, ting along," I Bald, "Yve got no prl-
what. you think he is doing in Ch1- vat war with>I�ing George.".
I
cage:" ' leaped at my oppertuuity. It
Ho moved still more impatiently. seemed aces( of now or newt, I said
Suddenly, with a disarming smile,. he "Then you didn't over actually refer
jumped to his fent. Aiul.this.time, the to George V. in so many words when
diversion that he introduced was so you ware fighting tho library conimit-
tee?"
He looked at am fiorcelyand ignored
that question. , Ile said, "And another
man asked mo if I hated all Dng_ish-
nien. 1 told:111m not. to talk nonsense.
I told him, for example, that Sir
Thomas Lipton was one of m3' great-
est 'friends,"
Silently I cursed Sir Thomas Lip-
ton. I didn't want to hear about Sir
amusing that I almost welcomed it.
He lumbered over to the other side of
the room and pointed to a singular
abject that hung on tho wail over his
hod. It appeared to ba partly a tele•
phone and partly a radio set.
His Sense of Humor
"See this?" ss,id Thbmpsou. ,
Momentarily relegating George V.
to the back of my mind, I looked at it.
anti-American ideas. tip till now I
may not have agreed with them. But
after Durant Smith's latter+,, I'm not
so sure. That kid ,}vas a friend of
reline." He looked at me rather path-
etically. "llo used, ' to be a 100 per-
cent. American. And now , . , this."
He handed me a' telegram from
Smith ldmself,. In it Smith stated
that he was a• patriotic Aniet•Ican, IIe
also stated that it was absurd to main-
tain that the .British ruling. classes'
And
were conspiring against America.
Galley TWO—Mayor Thompson
as soon as I react that, I. 'fixed upon it
and asked: "Do you think that the
British ruling elasses are conspiring
agail136 you?"
Words of Wisdom.
It was a direct question, aud Thomp-
son could not evade it. He, gulped,
set his mouth and said those words:
"I may think that the British ruling
storIan can accept to.day. to King George, riot( it. s,
I finished wading the passage, but rings for 338101;11511am Palace. 8315- greatost cities, in the world settle
class is' sproadittg iusidioys propagan-
omnent Y kept my oyes 'on the tors" kindly ho so plunged in ignorance as da, or some one else."
tarn m
mall os little`,am• Hand on hip, beaming at 1110, cigar to 06 ,convinced that the constitution- 'Pita, was one els for aro. Heedless
book. This was Y Iof Dearman, .h061110es of the attenadnt
1 t 1 • hi• ruouth he liresa0d a al motuu•eh of the British Emptt'e was
secretaries, satellites, and publicity
men, 1'- eized a penc1i•and wrote down
those sixteen words cif folly. Ism- folly
that they evoke
' picture 1t Y
they ar'e. The a
barrassing, For I saw aDao u o Y i dripping from s ,
nothing'of an offensive nature in it. i button. A. boll rang three times, A' endeavoring thy what moans, heaven
If Washington,was not a 'great dis- i musical box tinkled a gay tune: Anil' knows) to poison the mint.% of Ameri-
what was he? Was it not siudiletilF, tate doors of the apparatus i can school children, I had come to
isti14a 'or
to alanti since the y
y' flew. open; disclosing a bottle contain- 1 find that out,
the fact that he had chosen a. greater d h six would not suy 'it himself, I decided '
loyalty than his allegianc0 to an An."ing a yellow fluid, Surrounded y is too ludicrous to warrant any but
glo-Germathat entitles lasses, 1 that tho only thing to do would bo to the 'briefeat consideration, Yet, con.
him
sovereign
of history? If he � "What d' bu think of .that?" He''say it fon' him. I, ,;herefore, took a eider it for a moment. You tvonkl
him to the respectw awaw my cigar,
were not a great +'rebel;' `what was 1 slapped his thigh and doubled up with sleep breath, -titrelnaye to picture is darkened 700111` in
th hrngo' "tine 1 1 t r Thu ranghter was caught' which out o£ sheer ner'ioneneee I was London, with Lorci 'Balfour whisper -
evident in two plaster' figures of, girls,
fiucli as one observes 1n certain 0t
the . remoter streets of Tanis, These
girls - were clothed in little ,bunchy
froclai tied round 'the, waist. Across
the^chest of each of them therm craW1
-ec1 a miniature fly
a3out t investigate a picture
.^I.was t .,,4
that, sheaved a large likeness of Mayor
'semis 'v r
on' su'rrounded•'. by ', e y
ThomPs
stiiall-liliendaeSe of slill5':leSeer iigihes
ag Washington; Jeiterson,' aria Lin:
coin, whoa the door of the sanctum
was thrown.opon, and a voice, roared
out that I should go in. I went in.
I'saw seated before me amain rath-
br ,pact .the, prime 'of life, built;. ou a
very lare scale, with -the complexion
and figure that one'. usually assootates
with a ben viveur. A half -chewed
cigar protruded' front' his somewhat
full. lips.,(I observed a dozen dist
carded cigars, well chewed at both
ends, in the wastebasket by his sido),
Ile
Was in shirt sleeves, very much at
his ease, and apparently in an amiable•
mood; for he held out his hand in, a
,titre of •.welcome,
the meaning of e p , • aug h e ,
American ReVO1tit10n"? It,,vas 011 th0'1up by- the attentiant,satellitee and ,boginuing to masticate in a manner
tip of my tongue to give utterance to 1 secretaries. Tho room echoed with , similar to my august host, and spoke
these reflections when Thoreps011 In- I guffaws- I had a nionlentary - h$ttte ' as follows:
torrepted DM `vision of another Mayor I had once • The Big Boss Delnh.
I child- L rd'Ma yon of London, sit. imagine that when 'you referred
Publia seine seen—tire b Y "I ixnag � enters au
Aro Chicago's i and there e
and
mor
ild= 'z
at
tit
u f h i,
Washing-, n t. he Cr r"._ i o
t eo n
o neer. a paused
to s
h n -• ns I
as i r immense m t
oR g i b George 1
non to b0 taught that Georg ting in a to Goo a
hail, in robes of scarlet and Fold, with marked the fact that I said. '`whom" American professor, his Pockets load -
a face like fine parchment, : That' and not ' it"—"Yon wore using him ed with British gold, his horn spec -
Mayor had spoken in a quiet vele(, ,sly as a synhoi?" taeles removed in order that he may
i had given me sherry to drink out i' h The two
and
ing evil thoughts into•th0'ear of Pre -
mice Baldwin. You would have to
Place before 'them certain history
books, into which- they penciled their
wicked imaginings: There would bo a
ton was a traitor?" '
"No;" I -said, "but—""
A Wordy. Flood. ,
in little incident may
criticisnt. o[ that, n gravely. I1 la ,please all those who feel that i have
I' looked at him eta Y treated Prayer Thompson unfairly,
much the best ,thing you have said ; As soon all I lead left his Ilotior's of-
yet."
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yet " There was a faintly applinucling "ileo, I sought out a stenographer's of -
rustle from the chorus iu the back -
in I dao ono of Chicago's latest hotels,
ground, But I paid no attention wait the object of dictating, as rapid.
t'.hom. 1 was thinking, thinking fort ly as possible, the foregoing incidents
ous1Y• you, in America. -can have lit- $iand arguments 'while they wer-o still
tie idea of the extent to which the i fresh in my memory. I had not Mc-
Cloud of future wars hangs like 0 fated more than ,linea lnat.drecl vends
blight .over pintaopo's youth. It' is a I when, to my groat astonishment, the
form of creeping paralysis, It chocks !When,
threw clown her pencil,
endeavor, it stultifies ambition. it rose to her feet, glared at me feroci-
poisons the tvholm springs of Youngorose to 1d said: "D'you think I'm get Yo reply, peas for its l ng7 l man,
existence, What is tile, use of build -
to to take clown that cert of
so" 1 that 1% continued, "that perfidious statesmen show the probes- tag, of studying, of looking forward to l huppen to be a 100 per cant:. bunk? -
"z imagine al 1100 years of truitton. that must nor•
ie ativarm Itis. ales Y of serving, man; tend I ern toll yon t1:at Trlayur
you av it with gloating approval, And thou mealy_ follow ..3510 706118
y0wars are exceed/rids' limited? That to Buckingham Palace, ,h n at any moment the tempest may Thompson's little Cngmr is worth hn°1 a
the ,consent of Parliament is neves- they all repair v e than any b littshman that ever seem
e before can change a button ou to receive, tate sauctfoif •of the blood-' be upon us once more? over here,"
Teary 1 thirsty King -Limpet -or,' wltoao forked I remembered walking, a tow
tIr h which sentiments, I am sure,
a goat many people would agree,
6
Ibowever, perhaps it was all for rho
best, Ibex spelling was atrocious.
•
I. was answered by a torrent , of I of a fragile glass emUosbed wink tea
words. Ho gave me no opportunity to King's arms, However, London was
say that I thought ,his p t11 y was a far away—far, far. away hero, it
fake. The air was thick with vitupera-
seemed almost "like the land where
tion: a"They had removed from the
tho Junibiios live,"
history books Use name of Von Steil- ,,Ho's a reg'lur. guy."
ben, the' German who helped. to drill T1ltat's the stuff all right,"
George Waflltington's army, "They( „Some stiffs would gip [t hundred
had omitted to pay due homage to De dollars for a spoonful of that,"
Kalb, who had served in a similar ca- A sudden silence.'it was up to me.
ad -impudently las ?'. llvktet1tly,. t1t0
pacify: ' „They h that sheirld'-1 say
Jelled'. their. fervoon • the Battle of 'vron :thing. Because 5 said, for the
Which •made Canada .• g
Quebec in ` o " 3reread ,title;
" and'hero : -
Vktho. "LhmJ . were; a out George V,"
.British U ,
star
s •'tlnin's X Y impatience.
"they", had dein( these" g. r , Therm' was n rnstlii, nE• iml a
But• if' ' their" `;salvia his ''Honer , closed the
not' info'rined. , Rather sullenly
ties were. fairly •exemplified 'by" the' t to l lumbered
very mild passage to Which he had
drawn my attention,'I cannot imagine
anybody but . a neurotic. old maks be -
"Come right in, '.Make' yourself at
,tonic." -
'+Tiley told me I'd never get out of
this -office alive;"
"Well.-c1'you thinit that now?"
I shook my head,
"What d'you want, anyway?"
I Ieaned forward and faced him, leo
returned"any stare frankly. Give the
reap his clue -he looks you straight in
the eyes. •
"Ivo come' to you," I said, "as a
•
fairly typical 'Englishman 10110 hap-
pens to possess a considerable Per(-
sonal affection for America. 1 have
a feeling that I haven't got the truth
"boat you'feonn the newspapers. The
itewenapers make you"—(I wanted to
' pay that they. made him look a prize
14i•t ,s ser their haiidlvrorlc and bo examines
his soldier's unlform'Y' tail eau be perceived cocking out of months before, through: a. Peaceful
No reply, his ermine robes. Euglis1 village, Sucldontly in the dls-
,I was becoming a -little urinated' ' , f- (laze I heard the rattle of terries, the
• accounts for what tolioivad, "I And -this IS the pictures thatIfni-, gcldiere:.marclr-
irna h
''that: '0u ;iicioiitiy., deluded the iahabitantx of • metallic alialn;''x;liak of
imagine':also,"'I cit"woled, y ..tet' eittea to tri I stepped -aside and waited.
"would be inseam one et the :world's. gree e Inga• .lnan-
t ottl gar(l a tg Geo ge , by-- ri orit,';of Soon,it was ,upon me -the. "'mea ,
• , . naso them -to e10ct,. . a'. 'aj Y, • ,..
to, rogarc2 King 0,0711 V. as in any c r d" 'army. of uh:ch; t 0 hi , L+,uglattd:
?" 0 000' the Mali, Whe Paitate& it,, Andi ,o.
ae to an bady. at:all?" 18, 1. - stn d;scus
way. a mens Y U ,hent -not onlY,to Sleet hfm llut,l hsvos iecently heard No mu
•seise,
Aa sl3xee n1 'ands, of any 'own' age.
-.•Al-'isile•..th 6 a ,'"
i � ` •ever- " 18 s
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so. ao :bot g
abaudonod that, ;psi, txl s .. their
And"thee,-avenue
7 • tramped forward .like,Roholi ,
'red thont:
ie , a roach: ^ I tlthat c onceh asks thou-
,feller avetlt pp •d with as zl
1 to tacos masks g.
s and t It had taken an hour to stop door( of the apparatus I was justifiedThumps in sou xprees that
to Ids seat. He took another had ex tossed the 'Phomlison'e posings aha to got him bodies clothed inn;san:a complicated
back Mayor Thompson p
ci ar and almost bit it through la; the h.ad been attributed down to brass tacks. The .procesa.had apparatus of 'steel and leather. 'nun!.
g sentiments that •
first two seconds. Fora moment iris
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