Let me hear what you propose.' Sir Walter crossed to a cabinet, unlocked it with a key from his chain, and took a piece of paper from a drawer.

It looked like an ordinary half-sheet of note-paper.
'I take it,' he said, 'that your travels have not extended to the East.' 'No,' I said, 'barring a shooting trip in East Africa.' 'Have you by any chance been following the present campaign there ?' 'I've read the newspapers pretty regularly since I went to hospital.
I've got some pals in the Mesopotamia show, and of course I'm keen to know what is going to happen at Gallipoli and Salonika.

I gather that Egypt is pretty safe.' 'If you will give me your attention for ten minutes I will supplement your newspaper reading.' Sir Walter lay back in an arm-chair and spoke to the ceiling.

It was the best story, the clearest and the fullest, I had ever got of any bit of the war.

He told me just how and why and when Turkey had left the rails.