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Lord Dorminster was lying very much as Brookes had described him, but there was something altogether unnatural in the collapse of his head and shoulders and his motionless body. Nigel spoke to him, touched him gently, raised him at last into a sitting position. Something on which his right hand seemed to have been resting clattered on to the carpet. Nigel turned around and waved Maggie back.
"To carry out your suggestions, Lord Dorminster," the Minister pointed out, "would be to be guilty of an infringement of the spirit of the League of Nations, the existence of which body is, we believe, a practical assurance of our safety." Nigel rose to his feet. "As man to man, sir," he said, "I see you don't believe a word of what I have been telling you."
One of the few refusals came from Prince Shan, and even he made use of compromise: My dear Lord Dorminster, will you forgive me if in this instance I do not break a custom to which I have perhaps a little too rigidly adhered.
"You had better read both." Maggie opened out the former: MY DEAR DORMINSTER, I am afraid there is rather bad news about Jesson. One of our regular line of airships, running from San Francisco to Vladivostok, has picked up a wireless which must have come from somewhere in the South of China. They kept it for a few days, worse luck, thinking it was only nonsense, as it was in code.
"Lord Dorminster is not with you?" "Nigel went to look up a friend whom he wants to bring to supper. He is one of those people who seem to discover friends and acquaintances in every quarter of the globe." "And to that fortunate chance," her visitor continued, dropping his voice a little, "I owe the happiness of finding you alone."
Chigwin's door, and, after a short confabulation, dismissed the cabman and went in. At any rate it was something for Birchmead to know that it had a visitor who had come in a Dorminster cab. That was an incident which for these good souls distinguished the day from the one which went before and the one which came after it. It was Lettice Campion who thus stirred the languid pulse of Birchmead.
"I am in suspense," Prince Shan admitted, "and perhaps," he went on, with one of his rare smiles, "it occurred to me that it would be in one sense a relief to speak to a fellow man of the hopes and fears that are in my heart. You are the one person to whom I could speak, Lord Dorminster. You have not wished my suit well, but at least you have been clear-sighted.
"Are you being meteorological or complimentary?" she asked, smiling. "Will you present your companion? I have heard of Mr. Kingley." "With the utmost pleasure," the Prince replied. "Mr. Kingley, through the unfortunate death of a relative, is now the Earl of Dorminster Mademoiselle Karetsky."
"For my aperitif, a dash of absinthe in my cocktail; for Dorminster here, the lure of a woman's smile. Perhaps he gains. Who knows?" Nigel waited for his luncheon companion in the crowded vestibule of London's most famous club restaurant.
The General just asked me whether I thought you would soon be content to leave London unpoliced." "What rubbish! Any one else for me to see this morning?" "You promised to give Lord Dorminster ten minutes," the young man reminded him. "He is in the anteroom now." The Prime Minister frowned. "Dorminster," he repeated.
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