"Why, of course!" cried Alexander; the outline of his career was plain beyond discussion.

And let him go in strong for Home Rule.

That would be the great question for the next few years, until it was triumphantly settled.

Private information--from a source only to be hinted at--assured him that Mr.Gladstone (after the recent defeat) was already hard at work preparing another Bill.

Come now, they must drink Home Rule--"Justice to Ireland, and the world-supremacy of the British Empire!"-- that was his toast.