But Braithwaite got out of it very cleverly by getting us the protectorate of South Africa once and for all.

He was an old man then, too." Mr.Templeton stopped to cough again.

Father Francis sighed and shifted in his chair.
"And America ?" asked Percy.
"Ah! all that is very complicated.

But she knew her strength and annexed Canada the same year.

That was when we were at our weakest." Percy stood up.
"Have you a Comparative Atlas, sir ?" he asked.
The old man pointed to a shelf.
"There," he said.
* * * * * Percy looked at the sheets a minute or two in silence, spreading them on his knees.
"It is all much simpler, certainly," he murmured, glancing first at the old complicated colouring of the beginning of the twentieth century, and then at the three great washes of the twenty-first.
He moved his finger along Asia.