British

Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.

“Her husband was a British officer, and she is very careful what sort of boarders she takes.

“Here is page 534, column two, a substantial block of print dealing, I perceive, with the trade and resources of British India.

It is a matter of history—that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles—that Oberstein, eager to complete the coup of his lifetime, came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison.