"The building that the man who has gone out and is asking questions in order to guess the person everybody is thinking of reminds you of," said Hubbard.

"Oh, yes. That makes it absolutely clear," said Butterfield. "Let's get to work. Personally I haven't got beyond scrambled eggs."

"And I am lost in tapioca," I said. "Let's get to bed." That's as far as Hubbard ever got with the explanation of his game. We left him struggling and went to bed.


THE TRUTHFUL TRAVELLER.

All my life I've been a rover; I have ranged the wide world over,

And I've had the very devil of a time;

I've philandered through Alsatia with the nautch-girl and the geisha;

I have heard the bells of San Marino chime.

I've hobnobbed in Honolulu with the Zouave and the Zulu,