Cable From Mr. Menzies

Cable from Mr. Menzieseven the unworldly professor should have known that grand illusion and grim reality seldom go hand in handThe First Time I met Mr. Menzies was in a bathtub at the Hotel Prince de Galles in Paris. He was in the tub. I was living in Paris at the time, but not at the Prince de Galles.It was the fourth appointment we had made. Three times before, over a period of about eight weeks, he had sent me cables from such outlandish places as Baghdad, Tiflis and Marrakech to tell me tha...