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all the inforht be put

to him in Parlia with the officers of the sht to him He read it and smiled

"Good!" he said "Gentlemen, I am afraid I have to leave you a little

earlier than I expected Colonel Wraggle, will you see that my special

train is ready! I must leave in ten minutes The Chinese Commission

has arrived," he said impressively, "or, rather, it arrives in London

this afternoon, and I am deputed by the Prime Minister----"

He explained to his respectful audience just what part he had played in

securing Chinese Coal Concessions He made a little speech on the

ieneral of

these new coalfields which had been secured to the country through the

acuht, and patriotic disinterestedness of the

Cabinet

He would not claim to set any particular merit on his own action, and

went on to claim it By which time his train was ready It was indeed

vital that he should be in London to meet a comn devils, and had been, moreover,

so punctilious in its dehtest doubt about his ability to reach London before the boat

train arrived He had two and a half hours, and two and a half hours

gave hiin of time