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Surprisingly kind: quite a Spanish bit of courtesy. I wrote Mr. yes, Mr. Groves a note thanking him on your behalf, and I sent him some dry sherry which Stenson here" he smiled at the butler "tells me is rather good, eh, Stenson?" The solemn gravity of Stenson's face did not relax in the slightest, as he murmured: "Count de Meza's '84, sir." "Right! So long as it was the best we had.
She has a lot of rats, and some dogs and monkeys, and a lot of apparatus, and some technician from Henry Stenson's instrument shop helping her. Juan Jimenez is studying mentation of Terran dogs, cats and primates, and Freyan kholphs and Mimir black slinkers." "He hasn't turned up any simian or canine parallels to that funeral, has he?" Grego said nothing, merely shook his head.
Julian, duly embarked upon his mission, was kept waiting an unexpectedly short time in the large but gloomy apartment into which Mr. Stenson's butler had somewhat doubtfully ushered him. The Prime Minister entered with an air of slight hurry. He was also somewhat surprised. "My dear Orden," he exclaimed, holding out his hand, "what can I do for you?" "A great deal," Julian replied gravely.
Victor blanked the screen, leaned back in his chair and began laughing. In a moment, the screen buzzed again. When he snapped it on, his screen-girl said: "Mr. Henry Stenson's on, Mr. Grego." "Well, put him on." He caught himself just before adding that it would be a welcome change to talk to somebody with sense.
Just men with Stenson's brains and character; wishing for a hundred instrument makers with Stenson's skills would have been unreasonable, even for wishing. There was only one Henry Stenson, just as there had been only one Antonio Stradivari. Why a man like that worked in a little shop on a frontier planet like Zarathustra.... Then he looked, pridefully, at the globe.
There now ensued a full month and more during which we steadily plodded our way across the Indian Ocean, close-hauled day after day, with nothing more eventful than the occasional capture of a shark, or a capful of wind, to break the somewhat wearisome monotony of the voyage, during which I devoted an hour or two every day to the improvement of Master Billy Stenson's education; also giving a considerable amount of study to the late skipper's diary, in the endeavour to arrive at some sort of conclusion as to the whereabouts of the spot where Barber's alleged treasure was to be looked for.
The good soul has filled the house with flowers, and, usurping Stenson's functions, has polished furniture and book backs and silver and has hung fresh blinds and scrubbed and scoured until I am afraid to walk about or sit down lest I should tarnish the spotless brightness of my surroundings. "You have forgotten one thing, Antoinette," I remarked, satirically.
There were one or two amongst those present in the Council room at Westminster that evening, who noted and never forgot a certain indefinable dignity which seemed to come to Stenson's aid and enabled him to face what must have been an unwelcome and anxious ordeal without discomposure or disquiet.
Do not keep us in suspense any longer than you can help. Tell us where to find this letter?" Julian passed his hand over his forehead a little wearily. "I am confused," he admitted. "I must think. After all, you are engaged in a conspiracy. Stenson's Cabinet may not be the strongest on earth, or the most capable, but Stenson himself has carried the burden of this war bravely."
Will they really go the whole way, or will they compromise?" "They will not compromise," she assured him. "The telegrams to the secretaries of the various Trades Unions are already written out. They will be despatched five minutes after Mr. Stenson's refusal to sue for an armistice has been announced." "You know that?" he persisted. "I know it beyond any shadow of doubt." He nodded slowly.
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