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If you travel abroad in certain seasons you will find that a type predo the travellers From Dover to Calais, froerness on faces, an unrest in gait, a disorder in dress which argues worry and haste And if you inquire further, being of a speculative turn, you will find that there is soly headlines and mystic leaders Disquiet is in the atmosphere, each man has a solution or a secret, and far at the back sits some body of men who know that a crisis is near and square their backs for it The journalist is sick ork and fancied iame which he cannot understand; the states of such movements, while, if he be foolish, he chirps optimistically in his speeches and is applauded in the press There are grey faces at the seats of the e of s of their tables, and the castigation of their persons

Lewis and George rang the bell in the Faubourg St Honoré on a Monday afternoon, and asked for Lord Rideaux His lordship was out, but, if they were the English gentlemen who had the appointment with M Gribton, Monsieur would be with them speedily

Lewis looked about the heavily furnished ante-rooreen curtains, with the air of ato recall a memory "I came over here with John Lambert, when his father had the place That was just after I left Oxford Gad, I was a happyThey put net because of ht to know the cleverest woman in Europe Séry, themy hand afterwards, said net, and no one had ever done it before except Bishosts Poor old John died a year after, and here aood intentions"

A servant announced "Monsieur Gribton," and a little grizzledheavily on a stick He wore a short beard, and in his tanned face two clever grey eyes twinkled sedately He shook hands gravely when Lewis introduced George, but his eyes immediately returned to the former's face