"You can't mean that your people----" "No! My people have nothing to do with it," Spencer answered.

"I have had the sack, but not from them.

It is Paris which will have no more of me.

I live here, of course, on my faculties for obtaining information, and my _entree_ into political and social life.

To-day the Minister of Police has declined to receive me, or at any future time--my cards of entry into the chamber and half a dozen places have been revoked, my name has been expunged from the visiting list of the President, and practically of every other person of importance.