CHAPTER VII.
THE NAPPING OF THE KID.
No man in England was held in such diverging estimation by the public as the Right Honourable Dennis Macgregor Wynn, Secretary of State for the Blue. He was of Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish blood, and the result of this mixture somewhat bewildered the man in the street, who is a plain, straighforward chap, rather impatient with subtilty. The Right Honourable Mr. Wynn possessed the virtues of those four differing nationalities, and the people who recognised this regarded him as a demi-god. He was also endowed with the defects of this nationalistic quartette, and those who appreciated that side of him called him a demagogue. Of one thing everyone was convinced, namely, that he was a very astute politician; an Englishman in England, a Scotchman in Scotland, a Welshman in Wales, and an Irishman in Ireland,
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