SHOWS A GIRL'S BONDAGE Walter Murie had chosen politics as a profession long ago, even when he was an undergraduate.

He had already eaten his dinners in London, and had been called to the Bar as the first step towards a political career.
He had a relative in the Foreign Office, while his uncle had held an Under-Secretaryship in the late Government.

Therefore he had influence, and hoped by its aid to secure some safe seat.

Already he had studied both home and foreign affairs very closely, and had on two occasions written articles in the _Times_ upon that most vexed and difficult question, the pacification of Macedonia.

He was a very fair speaker, too, and on several occasions he had seconded resolutions and made quite clever speeches at political gatherings in his own county, Perthshire.
Indeed, politics was his hobby; and, with money at his command and influence in high quarters, there was no reason why he should not within the next few years gain a seat in the House.