g 'Zambesians' for 'Iberians,'
he gave us the last lines of 'The Scholar Gipsy.' 'In that era of
Tyre's trade,' he concluded, 'I place the golden age of our
country a golden age which under our own Imperial rule begins
anew.'

'H'm,' said Spenser. 'That live Mashona building-boy's worth many
dead Phoenicians to me, at any rate. As to defining romance, we'd
better agree to differ. 'Do well unto thyself, and all men will
speak well of thee,' he went on, with a tang of bitterness.
'Jew-boys and Arabs mopped up trade when they were living, now they
jump other men's kudos, being dead.'

'Never mind.' I said. 'Art for Art's sake, aspiration for
aspiration's, faith for faith's! And some there be which have no
memorial; who are perished as though they had never been; and are
become as though they had never been born; and their children
after them.'

'Never mind,' it was his turn to say. 'That granite kopje church
is rising, and Magbwe Ruins stand the quick and the dead. These
shall both come up for judgment and get justice. Yes, if they
have to wait for it till the Supreme Court of Alt holds session.'

NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD CHAMPION

We were going on an expedition long before the morning light
came. Our ship was an armed steamer a converted cargo boat. We
had reinforced our naval guns' crews and our Indian ship's guard
by taking officers and native soldiers (askaris) aboard at a
certain bay. We had reinforced our artillery by borrowing a Maxim
from the shore. I had a guest on board that night, a cheerful
padre. How he seemed to relish his craft, and how able I esteemed
him. I was very raw at the work, and he helped me to understand
what my defects were both in nature and grace. He had the
sort of smile, I thought the real, right sort to warm a naval
parishioner's heart. He was very keen on the new sort of thrills
and experiences that he had sought for himself by coming aboard.

We reclined on camp beds high up on the bridge-deck, but we did
not drop asleep when the electric light failed and faded. We
asked each other's ages, and discussed parts of England as we had
known them in more peaceful days; then we assured one another
that we wanted to rise early. We were to steam off on our sudden
raid in the dark. Coffee had been ordered about 5:30; action
might be expected to begin not much later than 6 a.m. We speculated
as to whether it were true that our ship would have to face an
old field gun's fire on the morrow