A CECIL RHODES STORY
"When the name of Cecil Rhodes be. gan to be used by the public tongue, a friend of mine asked the late Colonel Frank Rhodes ,to tell - him something about this'brother of his of whom tins financial world was talking, 'My brother is a strange man,' Frank replied. , ‘We, were young chaps together, and thore wasn’t too much. ■ money or • too many things among ; us. One day Cecil came and asked me to lot him have one of'my shirts,’as he wanted to go to an. evening party, in London. Well, I want, ed tlie, shirt myself that evening, and I told liim ho couldn’t have it. He said nothing, hut I know he didn’t like losing a chance, so I watched him. ’ I saw him off to the train. He had.neither the shirt on him nor had he bag and baggagewith him; but I thought I’d go to the drawer and just mote sure of my, shirt. -It was gone! Cecil came back that night. “Well, Cecil,” X said, “you won over that shirt of . mine; but just tell mo how you did -it,- for it wasn’t on you when you loft, here, and you had no parcel with yon.- -What did you do with it?” He chuckled a little, and said drily, “I put it on , under the old one.’ Now, that’s Cecil.'"
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7867, 1 August 1911, Page 6
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228A CECIL RHODES STORY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7867, 1 August 1911, Page 6
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