I have given my reasons for believing that in a crisis Jimmy would develop a very different side of his character, and that he has in him--latent and disguised for the moment--all the terrible passions and possibilities of the aristocrat at bay.

However, let that question rest with history and its future developments; his position at the present moment is very peculiar.

There is a report that the desire of his heart is to sit on the first seat on the front bench below the gangway, which for seven years was occupied by Mr.Labouchere, and which for the five years of Mr.Gladstone's Ministry of 1880 to 1885 was occupied by Lord Randolph Churchill when he was the chief of the dead and buried Fourth Party.

That seat is the natural point for a sharpshooter and guerilla warrior.

Indeed, the first seat below the gangway seems just as marked out by fate for such a man as Jimmy Lowther, as one of the high fortresses on the Rhine for the work of the bold freebooter of the Middle Ages.