THEODORE SAVAGE [Illustration] _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ DIANA OF DOBSON’S WILLIAM, AN ENGLISHMAN MARRIAGE AS A TRADE THEODORE SAVAGE A STORY OF THE PAST OR THE FUTURE BY CICELY HAMILTON LONDON LEONARD PARSONS DEVONSHIRE STREET _First Published 1922._ _Leonard Parsons Ltd._ Theodore Savage I If it had been possible for Theodore Savage to place on record for those who came after him the story of his life and experiences, he would have been the first to admit that the interest of the record lay in circumstance and not in himself. From beginning to end he was much what surroundings made of him; in his youth the product of a public school, Wadham and the Civil Service; in maturity and age a toiler with his hands in the company of men who lived brutishly. In his twenties, no doubt, he was frequently bored by his clerking duties and the routine of the Distribution Office; later on there were seasons when all that was best in him cried out against confinement in a life that had no aspiration; but neither boredom nor resentment ever drove him to revolt or set him to the moulding of circumstance. If he was destined to live as a local tradition and superman of legend, the honour was not gained by his talents or personal achievements; he had to thank for it an excellent constitution, bequeathed him by his parents, certain traces of refinement in manner and speech and the fears of very ignorant men.