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To the latter's request that Nigel might be permitted to be present at the discussion, he promptly acquiesced. "Lord Dorminster and I have already had some conversation," he said, "bearing upon the matter about which I desire to talk to you." "I have found his lordship," Prince Shan declared, "one of the few Englishmen who has any real apprehension of the trend of events outside his own country."
Chalmers passed his arm through Nigel's and led him in that direction. "I want you two to know each other," he said. "Jesson, this is Lord Dorminster Mr. Gilbert Jesson Lord Dorminster." The two men shook hands, Nigel a little vaguely. He was at first unable to place this newcomer. "Mr.
"You mustn't forget," Dorminster replied, "that it was your country who started the League of Nations." "President Wilson did," Chalmers grunted. "You can't say that the country ever backed him up. That's the worst of us on the other side we so seldom really get a common voice."
"I wonder," she reflected, "how much of you is Lord Dorminster's nephew." "And I, in my turn," he rejoined, with sudden boldness, "wonder how much of you is Matinsky's envoy." She began to laugh softly. "We shall perhaps be friends, Lord Dorminster," she said. "I should like to see more of you." "You will permit me to call upon you," he begged eagerly. "Will you come?
Nigel, as he made his bow, was conscious of an expression of something more than ordinary curiosity in the face of the girl who had herself aroused his interest. "You are the son, then," she enquired, "of Lord Dorminster who died about a month ago?" "His nephew," Nigel explained. "My uncle was unfortunately childless." "I met your uncle once in Paris," she said.
"Really, one gains much through being an onlooker," the Prince reflected. "There go the spirit of Russia and the spirit of Germany. You dabble in these things, my friend Dorminster. Can you guess what they are met for for whom they wait?" "I might guess," Nigel replied, "but I would rather be told." "They wait for the master spirit," Karschoff declared, taking his arm.
"Your late uncle belonged to that mischievous section of foreign politicians who believed in secret treaties and secret service, and who fostered a state of nervous unrest between countries otherwise disposed to be friendly. We have turned over a new leaf, Lord Dorminster. Our efforts are all directed towards developing an international spirit of friendliness and trust."
Our secret-service system has never been better, and frankly I hear many things which I don't like. I am going to talk to Lord Dorminster this afternoon very seriously, but in the meantime I wanted to speak to you. I heard a rumour that you thought of going back to Berlin." "I don't know how you heard it, but the rumour is not altogether untrue," she admitted. "I have not yet made up my mind."
Nigel had Maggie for a partner, and Chalmers one of her friends, and the set was as nearly equal as possible. Naida leaned forward in her chair, following every stroke with interest. "I find this most fascinating," she murmured. "I hope that Lord Dorminster and his cousin will win. Your sympathies, of course, are on the other side." "You are right," Immelan assented.
Lord Dorminster appears either to have shot himself, as seems most probable," he added, glancing at the revolver upon the carpet, "or to have been murdered." "It is incredible!" Nigel exclaimed. "He was the sanest possible man, and the happiest, and he hadn't an enemy in the world." The physician pointed downwards to the revolver.
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