Answer me honestly--do you see any change in me ?" Maraton leaned a little forward.

His face showed some concern, as he answered: "You are not in the best of health just now, I fear, Mr.Foley." "I am as well as I shall ever be," was the quiet reply.

"What you see in my face is just the record of these last four years, the outward evidence of four years of ceaseless trouble and anxiety.

I will not call myself yet a broken man, but the time is not far off." Maraton remained silent.

His attitude was still sympathetic, but he seemed determined to carry out his role of listener.
"If the political history of these four years is ever truthfully written," Mr.Foley continued, "the world will be amazed at the calm indifference of the people threatened day by day with national disaster.
We who have been behind the scenes have kept a stiff upper lip before the world, but I tell you frankly, Mr.Maraton, that no Cabinet who ever undertook the government of this country has gone through what we have gone through.