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He wished us luck in our quest for Scutari, and asked us to tea. We
then hurried to an awful building where the governing of Montenegro was
done--a concrete erection, presented to Montenegro by the British
Government, and an exact imitation of one of our workhouses. Here we
found the Minister of War, a gorgeously dressed little man with a
pleasant grandfatherly gleam in his eye. He only spoke Serbian, but with
him was an unshaven young man whose chest was covered with gold
danglers, who immediately began to air his quite passable French. We
explained what we had been doing and what we wanted to do. The War
Minister had not heard of US from the Sirdar, who had been resting after
his terrific ride, but said that they were to see each other that day.
The little man beamed upon us, and said they always wished to do
anything for the English, but he must first see the Sirdar.
"By the bye," he said, "I forgot to introduce you. This is Prince Peter,
commander of the forces on the Adriatic coast.


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