I want you to wait and be present." Shortly this prediction was verified.

Over from the German Embassy came the whole company on a visit to the British Ambassador, that he might add his signature to a document to which they had affixed theirs.

He read it quietly.

We may easily imagine its purport, since we know of the meditated European coalition against us at she time of our war with Spain.

Then the British Ambassador remarked: "I have no orders from my Government to sign any such document as that.