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Naida, escorted by her father and Immelan, took her place at an adjacent table. She bowed to Nigel and Karschoff before sitting down, and her eyes travelled over the rest of the party with interest. Then she recognised Maggie and waved her hand. "Immelan is a very constant admirer," Prince Karschoff remarked, a little uneasily. "Is that her father?" Maggie asked. The Prince nodded.
"Paul always declared," she said, "that in those days England had no statesmen no one who could feel what lay beyond the day-by-day horizon. When I think of that Treaty, my friend, I sympathise with you. It is not a great thing to forge chains of hate for a beaten enemy." "If you realise this, are you not then our friend?" Immelan asked.
"One hears that Immelan is devoted." "Scandalmonger!" the Prince declared severely. "Young man from the New World," he proceeded, "get on with your lunch and drink your iced water. Let the vision of those two remind you that it was your people who foisted the League of Nations upon us, and be humble, even sorrowful, when you view one of the sad results."
Prince Shan withdrew himself a little farther from the bed. "Immelan," he said, "during my stay in England I have studied you and your methods, I have listened to all you have had to say and to propose, I have weighed the advantages and the disadvantages of the scheme you have outlined to me, and I only arrived at my decision after the most serious and unbiassed reflection.
"You are even now trifling with the secrets confided to you," Immelan went on. "You know very well that the woman who came to you last night is a spy whose whole time is spent in seeking to worm our secret from you." "Your agents keep themselves well informed," was the calm comment. "Yours still have the advantage of us," Immelan answered bitterly. "Now listen to me.
"The same Lord Dorminster who was in the Government many years ago?" "He was Foreign Secretary when I was Governor of Jamaica," Sir Daniel answered. "A very brilliant man he was in those days." Immelan nodded thoughtfully. "I remember," he said. Nigel Kingley, on leaving the St.
"You don't know for certain what they were about?" "I think I do," she replied. "I believe they contained the text of the agreement between Immelan and Prince Shan. I believe they would have shown us exactly what we have to fear." He stood there for a moment thoughtfully. "To-night," he said, "I find it difficult to concentrate upon these things. Naida was extraordinarily hopeful.
It is true that Oscar Immelan is my father's old friend and also mine, but my judgment in all matters which relate to the welfare of my country is not influenced by that fact." "There was a report once," Nigel said, taking his courage into both hands, "that you were engaged to be married to him." She looked him in the eyes.
Three times he opened his lips, only to close them again. Some instinct seemed to tell him that his companion had more to say. He sat there as though mesmerised. Meanwhile, the Prince lit another cigarette. "A blunder, believe me, Immelan," he continued thoughtfully. "Death will not lower over my path till my task is accomplished.
I began to wonder," she added, "whether, after all, Oscar Immelan had not told me the truth, and whether we should not be drinking her health and yours before the evening was over." "You could scarcely believe that," he whispered, "if you have any memory at all."
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