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Lord Lansdowne and Delcassé lent each other firm support, so much so that the Paris Temps accused us of pushing France on in a dangerous affair which did not vitally concern her. The charge was not only unjust but ungenerous; for Germany had worked so as to induce England to throw over France or make France throw over England.
Ryder was brusque with his facts. "That doesn't matter Madame Delcassé doesn't matter. The thing that matters is " As brusquely he broke off. His tongue balked before the revelation but he goaded it on. "That there is a girl the living image of that picture." "I say!" McLean looked up at that, distinctly intrigued. "That's getting on.... You mean you've seen her?"
France, Russia and England did not have their cards on the table. He did not know which countries would remain neutral in case of war with France. He had suspected that there was some sort of an understanding brewing against him. The results of my mission learning of Sir Edward Grey's message to Delcasse, Delcasse's meeting with Prince Galitzin of Russia confirmed this beyond all doubt.
"Stress was laid by M. Delcassé upon the great desire entertained at Paris to prevent any serious difficulty from arising; at the same time, he felt convinced, especially in view of the conduct of the Sirdar at Fashoda, acting as he undoubtedly was under instructions, that Her Majesty's Government were as anxious as the French Government to avoid a conflict.
It seemed that Miriam's brush missed a stroke. "Years I forget," the nurse muttered, "but tears I remember," and she began to talk of other things. But it seemed to Aimée that she had answered. As for that other matter, of the dead Delcassé child, she dared not refer to it, lest Miriam tell the pasha. But how many times, she remembered, had she been told that she was her mother's only one!
"We've questioned all our native agents " Afterwards Ryder remembered that indefinite little pause. If the two men had not lingered if McLean had not remembered that he was an excavator if chance had not brushed the scales with lightning wings ! "Ever hear of a chap called Delcassé, Paul Delcassé, a French excavator?" McLean suddenly asked of him.
It may be declared that Delcassé created the Triple Entente and thereby saved France and Europe. To-day France fights a wholly defensive battle, supported on the one side by the Russian bear and on the other by the British lion. And strongest in the new cabinet of France stands Delcassé. France was chastened by the war of 1870. She will be crushed or redeemed by the war of 1915.
M. Delcassé, the French Foreign Minister, opposed the proposal, and for a time war between France and Germany appeared inevitable; but France was not in a military position to ignore Germany's threatening language, M. Delcassé had to resign, the French Cabinet under M. Rouvier agreed to the conference, and it met at Algeciras in January, 1906.
And for another thing, it's a perfect specimen of the limestone carving of the Tomb of Thi which Delcassé wrote his book about looks very much as if it might be by the same artist. There's a flock of hippopotami in a marsh scene with the identical drawing, and there's the same lovely boat in full sail but there, you bounder, you don't know the Tomb of Thi from a thyroid gland.
Russia is now literally fighting for her own liberty, for escape from the iron circle that shuts her off from the sea, and isolates her from the western world in which it is her ambition and her mission to play a helpful part. One needs no further explanation why the Russian Government put pressure upon M. Delcassé and Sir Edward Grey to open the Dardanelles route for the Russian corn.
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