In France or Italy, there is no real security.' 'But surely you are a true American ?' questioned Babylon.
'I am a true American,' said Racksole, 'but my father, who began by being a bedmaker at an Oxford college, and ultimately made ten million dollars out of iron in Pittsburg--my father took the wise precaution of having me educated in England.

I had my three years at Oxford, like any son of the upper middle class! It did me good.

It has been worth more to me than many successful speculations.

It taught me that the English language is different from, and better than, the American language, and that there is something--I haven't yet found out exactly what--in English life that Americans will never get.

Why,' he added, 'in the United States we still bribe our judges and our newspapers.