* In a letter to President Wilson a year later, Page wrote that he had made up his mind to live twenty years more in order to be present at the opening of Admiral Hall’s papers, for “the man is a genius-a clear case of genius,” and writing his story would be “the shortest cut to immortality for him and for me that has yet occurred to me.” The hope was not to be fulfilled. Illness brought Page home a month before the Armistice, and a month after it he died. “I loved that man,” said Balfour, who was among the large group that came to say good-by to Page at Waterloo Station. “I almost wept when he left England.” Admiral Hall lived on to see the Second World War and died in 1943 at the age of seventy-three.