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 up-root survive in their native dramatic combinations. With the abolition of such tyrants as we read of in "Droit du Seigneur," the Malay Peninsula becomes, to use Sir Hugh Clifford's own words, "as safe and almost as peaceful and orderly as an English countryside." But the trouble with making the world safe for democracy and other things is that it makes it entirely unsafe for Romance. Sir Hugh Clifford did his governmental work so well in Pahang that probably if he returned there to-day he would find no stories to write!