aph wrong."

"Mistake about the house," said Mr. Billing. "Well, it can't be helped.
Which is the right one?"

"Not exactly that," said Dr. O'Grady. "You've got the proper house, but
the Major has just reminded me----"

"I did not," said Major Kent.

"Well, if it wasn't you it was Thady. Thady Gallagher has just reminded
me that the top storey wasn't built when the General lived there. The
Government added it afterwards when the place was bought for a police
barrack. What you ought to do if you want to get the thing absolutely
right is to take another photograph and make sure that the top storey
doesn't come into it."

"I'm greatly obliged to you," said Mr. Billing. "I'll expose a second
plate."

He arranged his camera again. Sergeant Colgan and Moriarty settled
themselves in stiff attitudes, one on each side of the barrack door.

"Am I to take the two policemen as well?" said Mr. Billing, looking out
from beneath his black cloth.

"You may as well," said Dr. O'Grady. "It will interest the Bolivians
to see how this country is overrun with what Thady Gallagher calls the
armed forces of an alien power."

"What I say is this," said Thady Gallagher, grasping at his opportunity,
"so long as the people of this country is kept in subjection and the
cursed system of landlordism is supported----"

"Look here, O'Grady," said Major Kent, angrily, "I can't be expected to
stand this."

"It's all right, Major," said Dr. O'Grady. "It's only poor old Thady.
You know jolly well he doesn't mean a word of it."

"As long as the sacredness of our homes is invaded," said Gallagher,
"and the virtues of our families corrupted by the overfed minions of the
landlord class----"

"Oh, do shut up, Thady," said the doctor. "We all know that stuff off
by heart, and you must try to recollect that the Major's a Unionist. He
can't be expected to listen to you peaceably; and if we don't run this
statue business on strictly non-political lines we'll never be able to
carry it through."

"Whisht now, Thady, whisht," said Doyle soothingly; "sure the sergeant
is doing you no harm."

Mr. Billing clicked his shutter again. Sergeant Colgan and Constable
Moriarty relapsed from their strained attitudes and breathed freely.

"Got the lower storey all right?" said Dr. O'Grady. "Good. I daresay now
you'd like to toddle around with Thady Gallagher and see the General's
birthplace. I'm sorry I can't go with you myself, but I happen to be
rather bu