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SIR , In obedience to your explicit direction that I should meet Mr. Ernest R. H. Melton at Fiume , and report to you exactly what occurred , `` without keeping anything back , '' -- as you will remember you said , I beg to report . I brought the steam-yacht _ Trent _ to Fiume , arriving there on the morning of Thursday . At 11.30 p.m. I went to meet the train from St. Peter , due 11.40 . It was something late , arriving just as the clock was beginning to strike midnight . Mr. Melton was on board , and with him his valet Jenkinson . I am bound to say that he did not seem very pleased with his journey , and expressed much disappointment at not seeing Your Honour awaiting him . I explained , as you directed , that you had to attend with the Voivode Vissarion and the Vladika the National Council , which met at Plazac , or that otherwise you would have done yourself the pleasure of coming to meet him .