CHAPTER XVI.
STRIKE NOT WOMAN, EVEN WITH ROSES.
"Stop a bit," said M.Cantagnac, pulling a newspaper out of his pocket.
"This is a journal I picked up in the cars.

I always do that.

There is sure to be some passenger to throw them down and so I never buy any myself when I am traveling, ha, ha! Well, in this very sheet, there is a long article about you.

It is called 'The Ideal Cannon' and the writer declares that the experiment was a great hit, ha, ha! and he undertakes to explain the new system." Clemenceau smiled contemptuously.

He was not one of those to make a secret public property on which a nation's salvation might depend.