“Young Sidonia was fortunate in the tutor whom his father had procured for him, and who devoted to his charge all the resources of his trained intellect and vast and various erudition. A Jesuit before the revo¬ lution; since then an exiled Liberal Header; now a member of the Spanish Cortes; Rebello was always a Jew. He found in his pupil that precocity of intellectual de¬ velopment which is characteristic of the Arabian organization.” (p. 214.)
Then followed in young Sidonia’s career an in¬ tellectual mastery of the world. He traveled every¬ where, sounded the secrets of everything, and returned with the world in his vest pocket, so to speak—a man without illusions of any sort.
“There was not an adventurer in Europe with whom he was not familiar. No minister of state had such communication with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with all the clever outcasts of the world. The catalog of his acquaintances in the shape of Greeks, Armenians,