But really it was Wratislaw's choice." "Do you know Wratislaw ?" asked Mr.Stocks abruptly.
"Tommy ?--why, surely! My best of friends.

He had got his fellowship some years before I went up, but I often saw him at Oxford, and he has helped me innumerable times." The young man spoke eagerly, prepared to extend warm friendship to any acquaintance of his friend's.
"He and I have sometimes crossed swords," said Mr.Stocks pompously.
Lewis nodded, and forbore to ask which had come off the better.
"He is, of course, very able," said Mr.Stocks, making a generous admission.
His hearer wondered why he should be told of a man's ability when he had spoken of him as his friend.
"Have you heard much of him lately ?" he asked.

"We corresponded regularly when I was abroad, but of course he never would speak about himself, and I only saw him for a short time last week in London." The gentleman addressed waved a deprecating hand.
"He has had no popular recognition.

Such merits as he has are too aloof to touch the great popular heart.

But we who believe in the people and work for them have found him a bitter enemy.