Nothing for it but to clear out (through a portrait of the All-Highest), leaving Kit in the safe to suffocate.  Enter police (comic).  Where is Kit? Brain-wave.  In the safe, behind secret panel.  Problem:  how to open it.  The service was evidently so secret that it had never told one of its brightest young men about combination letter-locks.  But the dancer remembers that the chief spy had carefully explained to her the letters of the combination.  Release of Kit and a curtain which suggested that the initiative remained with the Kiraly.

The authors are to be congratulated.  They provided a good unpretentious evening’s entertainment.  No dull and pedantic realism for them.  The dialogue was bright, occasionally to the sparkling point.  The players were competent and zealous.  Mr. KENNETH DOUGLAS gave the right variety to his three parts, Goring as he was, Goring as he was assumed to be for purpose of bluffing the enemy, and Kit Brent; and he played his great bathroom scene with humour and complete discretion.  Miss IRIS HOEY was a charming innocent adventuress with heart of gold and eye of gladness; Mr. HIGNETT, as Kit’s self-possessed man Cosens, quite admirable, with just the right mixture of friendliness without impertinence and restraint without servility.  Mr. WENMAN as a superabundant gum-chewing impresario, and Mr. EILLE NORWOOD as head villain, were quite plausible in the interesting and unlikely situation.  I must say I like this kind of nonsense immensely.  T.

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[Illustration:  HOMEWARDS:  AN ALLOTMENT IDYLL.]

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A Cautious Prophecy.

“...  One of the reasons of the satisfaction is that the huge yield of the Loan effectively postpones any further borrowings on a similar scale until the end of the War.  By that time victory should either have been attained or be in sight.”—­Irish Paper.

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    “A well educated young lady, the daugter of a French interned prisoner
    of war, desires to make the acquaintance with an English or American
    family to mutually improve the languages.”—­Daily Paper, Lausanne.

The result will be awaited with interest in editorial circles.

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SEED POTATOES FOR PATRIOTS.

(Garnered from the catalogue of the George Washington Seed Company.)

“Adonis.”—­Strikingly handsome oval tuber of the fashionable nigger-brown shade.  Never had a day’s illness.  Every “Adonis” potato is inoculated for wireworm before leaving our grounds.

“Automatic.”—­Remarkable novelty; digs itself in, and jumps out of the ground when ready.  Self-peeling; skin comes off in the saucepan.  Immense boon to busy housewives.

“Little Gem."—­For window-boxes.  Flowers closely resemble Odontoglossum.  Much in demand for Mayfair mansions.  Dainty electro-plated trowel given away with every order for a hundred-weight.