XIII.
ROBINSON, IN AGONY, CALLS FOR HIS COAT AND HAT, “FOR,” AS HE CRIED OUT TO BROWN, “NOT A MOMENT IS TO BE LOST IN ENDEAVOURING TO SEE THE BRITISH MINISTER.”
XIV.
THEY GAIN AN AUDIENCE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE BRITISH MINISTER, AND ASK HIS INTERFERENCE IN BEHALF OF A PERSECUTED COUNTRYMAN.
WE ARE HAPPY TO ADD THAT THE INTERFERENCE WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL. JONES WAS LIBERATED IMMEDIATELY, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE BRITISH MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN A DESPATCH TO THE GERMAN MINISTER FOR THE SAME, EXPRESSED HIS CONVICTION THAT “THE WHOLE CIVILISED WORLD REPROBATED, WITH ONE VOICE, A SYSTEM AT ONCE TYRANNICAL AND CRUEL, A REMNANT OF THE DARKEST AGES OF MAN’S HISTORY, AND UTTERLY UNWORTHY OF THE PRESENT ERA OF PROGRESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT.”
OUR FRIENDS WERE ADVISED, HOWEVER, TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY AS SOON AND AS QUIETLY AS POSSIBLE. THEY DEPARTED ACCORDINGLY.
HEAD-DRESSES OF PEASANTRY. A SKETCH ON THE ROAD TO BASLE.