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THE SARSFIELD-MITCHAM AFFAIR
Stranleigh's first visit to the United States of America caused serious apprehension among his friends in England, and resulted in the somewhat irritated disappointment of those whole-hearted citizens in the big Republic who proposed extending to him that generous welcome which this hospitable people have ever accorded distinguished foreigners. After the London Bank panic, a great deal had been printed about Lord Stranleigh in the newspapers of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other cities, but this was all on account of the tremendous wealth he had gathered in through the meteoric rise of stock when the crisis ended. An enterprising American journalist, however, discovered that it was Lord Stranleigh himself who had come to the rescue of the Bank of England, and this revelation produced an effect approaching a sensation, for it showed that Stranleigh must have been a very rich man even before that unneeded accession of wealth came to him
