so far as might be to two years of and to resume in and at those tions which had been so unhappily broken off at washington in the example thus offered by germany is rare in history in the career of prince so far as i am instructed it should stand unique on a review of these two years of and failure in a little isle of the pacific he seems to have owned his policy was in the wrong he and left that house of cards the government to fall by its own and without remark or left the question openly and fairly to the conference and in the meanwhile to the local by and he sent to that invaluable public servant dr i should be a man if i did not here bear testimony to the loyalty since shown by in their position was painful they had talked big in the old days now they had to sing small even returned to the islands under the prejudice of an unfortunate record to the minds of the his name represented the beginning of their sorrows and in his first term of office he had unquestionably driven hard the greater his merit in the surprising success of the second so long as he stayed the current of affairs moved smoothly he left behind him on his departure all men at peace and whether by fortune or for the want of that wise hand of guidance he was scarce gone before the clouds began to gather once more on our horizon before the first germany and the eight years of trouble in states hauled down their flags it was so done again before the second and germany by a still more emphatic step of returned the exile to his native shores for two years the unfortunate man had trembled and suffered in the in germany in the rainy when he left september was king served by five iron war ships his right to rule like a of the church was placed outside dispute the were still as they were called at that last tearful interview in the house by the river the invincible strangers the thought of resistance far less the hope of success had not yet dawned on the mind he returned november to a changed world the party was reduced to sue for peace was withdrawn was dying of a broken heart the german flag no longer waved over the capital and over all the islands one figure stood supreme during s absence this man had succeeded him in all his honours and titles in more than all his power and popularity he was the idol of the whole nation but the of the and and of these he was already the secret a in his position there was but one weak point � that he had ever been excluded by the indeed once with the thought of him but the project had no and it stands alone in every other juncture of history the german attitude has been the same choose whom you will to be king when he has failed choose whom you please to succeed him when the second fails also replace the first upon the one condition that be excluded il t � an official is said to have thus up the necessary in a king and it was perhaps feared that could do no more and might not always do so much but this original was heightened by late events to something upon was the arms of were still soiled with the blood of german sailors and though the chief was not present in the field nor could have heard of eight years of trouble in the till it was over he had from it credit with his countrymen and dislike from the i may not say that trouble was hoped i must say � if it were not feared the practice of must teach a very hopeful view of human nature and by the sudden of the last found themselves face to face in conditions of the one returned from the dead of exile to find himself replaced and the other at the end of a long anxious and successful struggle beheld his only possible from tlie grave the qualities of both in this difficult moment shone out nobly i feel i seem always less than partial to the his virtues are perhaps not those which chiefly please me and are certainly not royal but he found on his return an opportunity to display the admirable sweetness of his nature the two entered into a competition of generosity for which i can recall no parallel in history each the throne for himself each pressing it upon his rival and they embraced at last a compromise and the terms of which seem to have been always obscure and are now disputed at least resumed his style of king of retained much of the conduct of affairs and continued to receive much of the attendance and respect and the two with so many causes of dwelt and met together in the same town like it was so that i first saw them so in a house set about with � for there was still a haunting fear of germany � that i heard them relate their various experience in the past heard tell with touching of the sorrows of his exile and with simplicity of his resources and anxieties in the war the relation was perhaps too beautiful to last it was perhaps impossible but the king should grow at last uneasily conscious of the de at his side or the king maker be at last offended by some shadow of distrust or assumption in his creature i repeat the words king maker and creature it is so that himself of their relation surely not without justice for had he not and prevailed eight years of trouble in and been helped by the folly of 