To Menelek in a motor-car . ring of the National Anthem need notbe inquired into. What followed was perhaps the only piece ofsentiment that they allowed themselves throughoutthe trip. It was unrehearsed and is worth record-ing. After the royal toast Bentley said : Nowto our noble selves. Hi ! wait a minute, a piece of 137 TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR sugar, George—thanks, he continued, dipping thelump into his own mug and then into those of theother two. Now Bully joins in, what was itAthos, Porthos and those other Johnnies used tosay ? One for all and all for one, sir, prompted Wells,and he said
To Menelek in a motor-car . ring of the National Anthem need notbe inquired into. What followed was perhaps the only piece ofsentiment that they allowed themselves throughoutthe trip. It was unrehearsed and is worth record-ing. After the royal toast Bentley said : Nowto our noble selves. Hi ! wait a minute, a piece of 137 TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR sugar, George—thanks, he continued, dipping thelump into his own mug and then into those of theother two. Now Bully joins in, what was itAthos, Porthos and those other Johnnies used tosay ? One for all and all for one, sir, prompted Wells,and he said it as though he meant it. Somehow the effect of those words, as Wellssaid them, was to render those three men momentarilyalmost shy of each other, and the mugs were emptiedin silence. Bentley squeezed Bully, who was stand-ing on his hind legs with his paws on his thigh eatinghis lump of sugar, tight against him, and thenhanding his mug back to George, said in a voice asuspicion hoarser than usual, Come—lets be off. 138. .-3 -a U
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