“Yours very truly,
“Herbert Blackett.”
Diaz was hurled from power in his eighty-first year. It is one of the saddest episodes in the history of great rulers, and at the same time one of the most important in the history of a country. His remaining in office for an eighth term was a fatal mistake, and shrouded in gloom the close of a career of unexampled brilliancy, both in war and statesmanship.
Diaz left Mexico in May, 1911, and for fifteen months after that country did not know one moment’s peace.
His life was verily a moving spectacle of romance.
And so here end snatches of remembrance of thirteen busy years.
No—not quite—see next page.