have stated
before, if there is any kind of work I have liked more than another, and
into which I have always put my heart and soul, it is this kind. After
we had got through I was cross-examined by eight opposing counsel,
including Pope, Pember, Balfour Browne and Seymour Bushe. One of the
very few things connected with my appearance in the case I have preserved
(and this I have kept from vanity, I suppose) is a newspaper cutting
which says, "In cross-examination Mr. Pope could not get a single point
out of Mr. Tatlow. On the contrary it actually made his case stronger.
His evidence from beginning to end was most masterly. It was the
evidence of a man who knew what he was talking about and who told the
truth. Mr. Pope, in the end, agreed with Mr. Tatlow's statement on
running powers." Mr. Pope was a big, generous-minded man. In the course
of his great speech on the case he paid me the very nice compliment of
saying that, "Mr. Tatlow went into the box and with a candour that did
him great credit at once admitted that they (the clauses) were the most
stringent that he knew of." This from opposing counsel was a compliment
indeed, and I was much complimented upon it. Mr. Pope greatly admired
candour, and indeed I found myself that candour always told with the
Committees. Littler loved Pope, and so did all the Parliamentary Bar, of
which he was the acknowledged leader and the respected father. Littler
said to me, "He is a wonderfully and variously gifted man, and had he
chosen the stage as a profession would have been a David Garrick." I
said, "What about his very substantial person?" for he was colossal in
figure. "I had forgotten that," said Littler. Littler told me a good
story of him which Pope, he said, was also fond of telling himself.

It was in the great man's biggest and busiest days. Influenza was rife.
Mr. Pope was a bachelor, and his valet inconsiderately took the "flu."
Mr. Pope's nephew said the valet must go away till he fully recovered, or
Mr. Pope would be sure to take it. "What shall I do?" said Mr. Pope, in
dismay. "Oh, I'll get you a good man for the time," said the nephew; and
so he did; a skilful, quiet, efficient, attentive man, whose usual duty
it was to attend on a rich old gentleman, who resided, on account of a
little mental derangement, in a certain pleasant private establishment.
Mr. Pope had not been told, nor had he inquired, where the excellent
valet, with whom he was well ple