And if I did have, I should resign my post rather than sign it." A pause: The company fell silent.

"Then what will your Excellency do ?" inquired one visitor.

"If you will all do me the honor of coming back to-morrow, I shall have another document ready which all of us can sign." That is what happened to the European coalition at this end.
Some few years later, that British Ambassador came to die; and to the British Embassy repaired Theodore Roosevelt.

"Would it be possible for us to arrange," he said, "a funeral more honored and marked than the United States has ever accorded to any one not a citizen?
I should like it.

And," he suddenly added, shaking his fist at the German Embassy over the way, "I'd like to grind all their noses in the dirt." Confronted with the awkward fact that Britain was almost unanimously with us, from Mr.Balfour down through the British press to the British people, those nations whose ambassadors had paid so unsuccessful a call at the British Embassy had to give it up.