You have already learned its tenor, the time we met Mr.
Pakenham with Mr.Tyler at the White House." I grinned.

"Shall we not take it across direct to Mr.Blair for publication in his _Globe_ ?" Mr.Calhoun smiled rather bitterly at this jest.

The hostility of Blair to the Tyler administration was a fact rather more than well known.
"'Twill all get into Mr.Polk's newspaper fast enough," commented he at last.

"He gets all the news of the Mexican ministry!" "Ah, you think he cultivates the Dona Lucrezia, rather than adores her!" "I know it! One-third of Jim Polk may be human, but the other two-thirds is politician.

He will flatter that lady into confidences.