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"Before making up my mind," returned the latter quietly, "I should like to see the operator who received them." "By all means!" exclaimed Von Koenitz. The President pressed a button and his secretary entered. "I had anticipated such a desire on the part of all of you," he announced, "and arranged to have him here. He is waiting outside. Shall I have him brought in?" "Yes! Yes!" answered Rostoloff.
"What, then, shall be done?" inquired Rostoloff anxiously. "The world will be annihilated!" "Your Excellencies" Von Koenitz arose and took up a graceful position at the end of the table "I must protest against what seems to me to be an extraordinary credulity upon the part of all of you. I speak to you as a rational human being, not as an ambassador.
"Also, it appears that Koenitz was rather heavily involved, and the expense of maintaining those interned steamers, with their German crews aboard, has his widow badly worried; in fact, she has reached the point where she finds it necessary to sell one of the steamers in order to hang on to the other two.
And having thus fulfilled his duty the count took a cab to the Metropolitan Club and there played a discreet game of billiards with Señor Tomasso Varilla, the ex-minister from Argentina. Von Koenitz from the first had played his hand with a skill which from a diplomatic view left nothing to be desired.
Say, there ain't any doubt in your minds that it's him, is there?" Von Koenitz looked cynically round the room. "There is not!" exclaimed Rostoloff and Liban in the same breath. The German laughed. "Speak for yourselves, Excellencies," he sneered. His tone nettled the wireless representative of the sovereign American people.
We'll get along without that. Wilhelm doesn't cut much ice with me these days and I'm willing to wager the price of the Bavarian that such ice as he does cut will blame soon melt. Gus, you say Mrs. Koenitz wants to sell?" "Yes." "And she doesn't care who buys?" "Not a particle! She's sore on the Kaiser; it's been thumbs down on Wilhelm ever since Adolph and the boys lost the number of their mess.
They do not suggest what the aurora is nor why its appearance should have this effect. It, therefore, seems to me clearly my duty to lay before you all the facts as far as they are known to me. Among these facts are the mysterious messages received by wireless at the Naval Observatory immediately preceding these events." "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!" half sneered Von Koenitz.
It was at this time that Count von Koenitz, who now was looked upon as the leading figure of the conference, arose and said: "Your Excellencies, this distinguished diet will, I doubt not, presently conclude its labours and receive not only the approval of the Powers represented but the gratitude of the nations of the world.
Pax that's what he calls himself signals NAA, our number, you understand, and then says what he has to say to the whole world, care of the United States. The first message I thought was a joke and stuck it in a book I was reading, 'Silas Snooks' " "What?" ejaculated Von Koenitz impatiently. "Snooks man's name feller in the book nothing to do with this business," explained the operator.
Monsieur Liban turned impatiently from him. "Your Excellency," he said, addressing the President, "I cannot share the views of Count von Koenitz. I regard this affair as of the most stupendous importance. Messages or no messages, extraordinary natural phenomena are occurring which may shortly end in the extinction of human life upon the planet.
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