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 corner of the room. Then stepping out on the balcony, he took a seat opposite his chief.

"This man," he said, "seems to be a literary person, who begins his letter in blank verse:—

"'Your advertisement states that you wish to benefit humanity. I claim no originality for my suggestion, but the time that has elapsed since it was first mooted gives you an opportunity of applying to it modern methods and modern thought, discarding what you may deem cumbrous, and adding improvements from the knowledge of to-day. For encouragement, I ask you to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "Pharaoh and the Sergeant":—

and the poem goes on to show how the Sergeant