Well, that talk caught on.

They knew of my reputation as an hydraulic expert, and they were tickled to death to rope me in.

I told them I wanted a helper, and I told them about my friend Richard Hanau, as good a German as ever supped sauerkraut, who was coming through Russia and Rumania as a benevolent neutral; but when he got to Constantinople would drop his neutrality and double his benevolence.

They got reports on you by wire from the States--I arranged that before I left London.

So you're going to be welcomed and taken to their bosoms just like John S.was.