A Little Later.—­No, he is not to be drawn.  Won’t swerve an inch.  So now we are trying another dodge.  Will he resign his dual office?  He says he will resign one.  But he knows that won’t do.  If he remains chief adviser to the King, we shall be nowhere.  His last idea is to resign the Presidentship of the Municipal Council.  Why, we are the Council, and we should have kicked him out if he hadn’t!  Very funny, but it’s hard to laugh when one’s within an ace of a massacre or an explosion.

Latest.—­Still in doubt.  However, have a subject for something in the dramatic line.  What the entertainment will be, depends upon the future development of the plot.  At present it may turn out a Tragedy—­or an Opera-bouffe.

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