This saddened me a little. He was not then absolutely complete. There was a faint tarnish on the lustre of his innocence. He was scarcely perhaps suited for the League of Nations after all. Lighting an Albanian cigarette I asked him for my bill.


THINKING ALOUD.

Lord Haldane loquitur.

"Tired of laborious days and nights

Spent on the intellectual heights,

I long to raise and educate

The masters of the future State.

Besides, the people in the plains

Are lamentably short of brains,