Manchurian Books

What an Arabian Nights' Entertainment we might have had if
only Scheherazade had ever heard of the Present! As for the
thousand-and-one-nights, they would not have contained all her
invention. No wonder that the time went trippingly for the two who
were concerned in such bewildering speculation as the prince had
made possible and who were furthering acquaintanceship besides.
"Ah, well now, at all events," begged St. George at length, "will
you remember something while you are away?"
"Your kindness, always," she returned.
"But will you remember," said St. George with his boy's eagerness,
"that there is some one who hopes no less than you for your success,
and who will be infinitely proud of any command at all from you? And
will you remember that, though I may not be successful, I shall at
least be doing something to try to help you?"
"You are very good," she said gently, "I shall remember. For already
you have not only helped me--you have made the whole matter
possible."
"And what of that," propounded St.


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