ABSTRACT
No frugal housekeeper takes better care of her pennies than Lord Cromer did of the piastres of the Egyptian fellah. He was a good steward and knew that “ a stitch in time saves nine He was the very personification of thoroughness ; he left nothing to chance. He worked hard, and insisted that those who surrounded him should pull their oar. He would not tolerate a laggard. He was a strict disciplinarian. Radically different from Kitchener in one essential particular, he had so many qualities in common with that officer that in appointing his former Commandant of Police to the Sirdarship, the Consul-General chose a man whom he considered his alter ego.
