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tousle-headed urchin, insisting upon the use of 

 a niblick. From the serious expression upon 

 the eminent politician's face he might well have 

 been consulting a Cabinet colleague upon some 



question of vital import to the Empire, and I 

 watched with interest to see the upshot of 

 their deliberations. 



It was all in vain that the hard-headed Minis- 

 ter of State, the man in whose hands lay the 

 destinies of a great people, pleaded for his 



