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bearing six boxes, told the driver (in fairly moderate terms) that it was a disgrace to load a truck that lightly. I heard the conversation from my room upstairs. The truckdriver, a meddlesome fellow, went straight to Dikaios, who (I was amazed to hear) blew up, and said that Christo couldn't have said that, that it must be someone else; Christo would not meddle with other people's affairs. Another chauffeur came back to find out if it was Christo, and was informed in no uncertain terms that it was, and that we didn't like to see things like that done at his employer's expense. That too, of course, went right back, and brought forth a volley of abuse. He said to the chauffeur that he was going to write to me that Christo was a bad sort, and warning me to fire him. To that, I learned this evening, Christo replied by a letter, apparently none too
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