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 *Bouillon did all he could to advise them to preserve good relations with England.

The car arrived about eleven o'clock, and though we were driven to spend the night in the station (a junction between Haidar Pasha, Angora and Smyrna); though the wind howled over the beating rain, and the train shrieked in the distance, the contrast of so much comfort (on the luxurious couch of a roomy car) with the experience of the previous night, made one feel that the discomfort itself had been worth while.

As the colonel, the cheik and the officers in turn brought me a glass of tea by way of nightcap, I said to each: "How good it is to be here!"