interview. She could therefore not have
talked with him in 1902; and the _locale_ of this meeting, the Prime
Minister's room, becomes peculiarly fantastic. Secondly, no member of his
family--and they saw him constantly--ever heard him utter anything
resembling the sentiments which the Margotist attributes to him. Mr.
Sadrock was both an undeviating Churchman and a devotee of HOMER to the end
of his life.

I am, etc., THEOPHILUS SADROCK.

THE MARGOTIST'S REPLY.

SIR,--I have read Mr. Theophilus Sadrock's letter and am surprised by its
tone. If Mr. Sadrock did not make use of the words that I attribute to him
how could I have set them down? Because I was writing unobserved all the
time he was talking, and I could produce the notes if they were, to others,
legible enough for it to be worth while; surreptitious writing must
necessarily be indistinct at times. As for the question of time and place,
that is a mere quibble. Mr. Sadrock was alive when we had our talk, and I
am sorry if I have misdated it. The talk remains. May I add that it is very
astonishing to me to find people with the effrontery to suggest that they
knew their illustrious relatives better than strangers could. Everyone is
aware that the last place to go to for evidence as to a man is to his kith
and kin. When my book appears there will be a few corrections; but in the
main I stand by the motto which I invented for Chamberlain one evening:
"What I have written I have written."

I am, Yours, etc.,

THE MARGOTIST.

_The Woop._

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FROM "SADROCK: A DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY."

_Published in 1940._

Before leaving our consideration of Sadrock's Homeric studies it is however
necessary to point out that late in life he made a very curious
recantation. In a book of memoirs, published in 1920, by one who was in a
position to acquire special information, it is stated in his own words that
Sadrock preferred _Robert Elsmere_ to the _Iliad_; while during the same
conversation he confessed to a passion for the services of Dissenters,
which, he said, he often frequented _incognito_. No biographer can
disregard such admissions, and we must revise our opinion of the great
statesman accordingly.

E.V.L.

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