I have read--only to-day, in the _Contemporary Review_--an admirable tribute to your sagacity in handling the Servian affair.

Your work was masterly.

I followed it from the beginning with deepest interest." The old gentleman bowed half-unconsciously, for his thoughts were far away, as the vague stare in his small, shrewd eyes indicated.
"But you are here for rest--one comes to Geneva at this season for nothing else." "What brings you here ?" asked the old man with sudden energy.

"If the papers you gave me in Paris are forgeries and you are waiting--" "Yes; assuming that, what should I be waiting for ?" "If you are waiting for events--for events! If you expect something to happen!" Armitage laughed at the old gentleman's earnest manner, asked if he might smoke, and lighted a cigarette.
"Waiting doesn't suit me.

I thought you understood that.