"Such popularity as I may have achieved here has been due to an appreciation of the more healthy state of world politics now existing.

It has been my great pleasure to trace the result of my work in a manuscript of memoirs, which some day, when peace is firmly established between our two countries, I shall cause to be published.

I have put on record there evidences of the really genuine sentiment in favour of peace which I have found amongst the present Cabinet." "I should esteem it an immense privilege," Dominey said, "to be given a private reading of these memoirs." "That may be arranged," was the suave reply.

"In the meantime, Von Ragastein, I want you to reconsider your position here." "My position is not voluntary," Dominey repeated.

"I am acting under orders." "Precisely," the other acquiesced, "but matters have changed very much during the last six months.