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 attendant just happened to have vacated. She simply "refused to believe" the scandalised authorities when they told her that she was sitting beside the King of England. Edward enjoyed the joke, would not allow "his friend," to be disturbed, and chattered merrily to her between the music to the end of the programme.

Her countrywomen, in Ascot gowns, driving their four-horse carriages up to the golf-course at Marienbad, in search of an introduction, did not find His Majesty so easy to approach. The most determined of them all (up against something that "money" could not buy) was driven to use her scissors to cut off a few hairs from his dog's tail. "At least," she said, "if I have no souvenir of the King of England, I have a bit of his dog," and she mounted the hairs in a locket and wore it until she died. "You see," I concluded, "how much these 'democrats' admire a king. Will the fever, I wonder, ever take root in the East?" When we reached the Sakharia, the eyes of the general were filled with tears, and it was some time before he managed to speak of what had been. It seemed, indeed, too good to be true. The Greeks had penetrated to Sakharia; and now they were driven out of the whole country! "Without our Pasha," said he, "we should still be slaves. To-day, none dare fail in duty to our Fatherland!" They were all this man's pupils, these Nationalist leaders. To his fine, upright character they owe an example they are proud to acknowledge. His sons told me that he was in exile for six years, and they had no idea where he was! It was easy to see how they admired him and how devoted he was to them; and now his work at Teheran will not be easy; such men give their whole lives to service! We have travelled quickly and comfortably over this desolate country; the little engine, stoked with