Here's the telegram.

That pink-cheeked maid of yours nearly had a fit when I opened it to show her that I was expected." "You wired from Victoria, I suppose ?" "Would you have preferred Charing Cross, or the Temple?
Isn't Victoria respectable ?" Grant laughed as they shook hands.

Hart was the most casual adventurer in existence.

His specialty was revolutions.

Wherever the flag of rebellion was raised against a government, thither went Walter Hart post-haste by train, steamer, or on horseback.