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Howells is going away, he said, and I should like to give him a stag-party. The Yellow Terror is threatening the world, but no matter what happens the United States says that it has had no part in it. I am glad he did, as it gives me an opportunity which I wanted--to speak of those debts. The audience realized that it was witnessing the close of aheroic chapter in a unique career.

--[Prepared for Red Cross Society watch-meeting, which was postponed until March. He also spoke at a banquet given to Andrew Carnegie--Saint Andrew, as hecalled him--by the Engineers Club, and had his usual fun at the chiefguest's expense. We were winning alternately, and neither noted the time. Due at Gibraltar 10 days from New York.