Do your best to fill Roberts' place adequately.

Leaving his house we stopped, on our return to London, at a hospital for soldiers in the grounds of Ascot Race Course scarcely two miles from Lord Roberts' place.

The following account is extracted from the Methodist Magazine for 1798: "The Lord astonished 'Sarah Roberts' with his mercy, by 'setting her at liberty, while employed' in the necessary business of 'washing' for her family, &c. N. B. Not the famous rabbit-woman.

[From Lord Roberts' "Forty-one Years in India."

Twenty years hence the sureties on that bond could be held for a shortage in the Treasurer's office, if it could be traced back to Mr. Roberts' term.

He had lost faith in his luck, had lost it strangely enough when luck had laid at his feet that most desirable of all gifts, Jim Roberts' timely death.

"Friends, these are Mr. Roberts' wife and daughters.

Kenneth Roberts' working methods.

Kenneth Roberts' working methods.

But then they will have disregarded Lord Roberts' advice.

The protests against Lord Roberts' speech take the form of denying the intention of Germany to attach this country.

" These are not Lord Roberts' words, but the proposition is the clear underlying assumption of his speech.

And if that assumptionplainly indicated as it is by a Liberal Ministeris right, who can say that Lord Roberts' conclusion is not justified?

Lord Roberts' formula is: "Such a battle front by sea and land that no power or probable combination of powers shall dare to attack us without the certainty of disaster.

Such are Lord Roberts' actual words.

During the last 18 months I have addressed not scores but many hundreds of meetings on the subject of the very proposition on which Lord Roberts' speech is based and which I have indicated at the beginning of this letter; I have answered not hundreds but thousands of questions arising out of it.

The situation was critical, for we were two women and three girls, when I bethought myself that we were unknown, and gently touched the nearest fist: "Friends, these are Mr. Roberts' wife and daughters."

" A little silence followed, in which Trove was thinking of the Hope letters and of Roberts' claim that he was engaged to Polly.

He then pointed to a vessel of forty guns, and a hundred and fifty men; and though her strength was greatly superior to Roberts', yet he made towards her, taking the master of the captured vessel along with him.

[Illustration: Captain Roberts' Crew carousing at Old Calabar River.]

Upon the appearance of a sail, one of Roberts' ships was sent to chase and take her.

Roberts' crew, discerning their masts over the land, went down into the cabin to acquaint him of it, he being then at breakfast with his new guest, captain Hill, on a savoury dish of salmagundy and some of his own beer.

Martin Harvey, now awaiting his trial for poaching, and for being concerned in an affray with Sir George Roberts' game-keepers, had once been his father's apprentice.

She resolved to seek admission into Sir George Roberts' mansion, and appeal to the pity of his wife.

After a time Lady Roberts' maid came, and beckoned her to follow up-stairs.