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No encumbrance of any sort." Again he nodded without speaking. "The line between an encumbrance and a purpose is not very clearly defined, is it?" she said lightly; and then added a question, "What are you doing in The Hague Malgamite?" "Yes," he answered, in surprise, "Malgamite." "Oh, I know all about it," laughed Mrs. Vansittart. "I see Dorothy Roden at least once a week."
Mrs. Vansittart held up a warning hand. "Do not talk to me of your financial basis. I know nothing of money. It is not from that point of view that I contemplate your Malgamite scheme." "Ah! Then, if one may inquire, from what point of view....?" "From the human point of view; as does every other woman connected with it.
"My dear Anthony," answered Lord Ferriby, turning over his papers with a preoccupied air, as if the question under discussion only called for a small share of his attention "my dear Anthony, the money was subscribed for the amelioration of the lot of the malgamite workers. We have not only ameliorated their lot, but we have elevated them morally and physically.
For Charity does not hesitate to close up an industry or interfere with a trade that supplies thousands with their daily bread. Thus the Malgamite scheme so glibly inaugurated by Lord Ferriby in his drawing-room bore fruit within a week in a quarter to which probably few concerned had ever thought of casting an eye. The price of a high-class tinted paper fell in all the markets of the world.
Then he leisurely turned to the column indicated by his companion. It was headed, "Crisis in the Paper Trade: the Malgamite Corner." And Tony Cornish did not raise his eyes from the printed sheet for a full ten minutes. When at length he looked up, he found Mr. Wade watching him, placid and patient. "Can't make head or tail of it," he said, with a laugh.
"There," he said, touching his forehead, with one finger; "it is in the brain of one man once more." He returned to the chair he had just vacated. "And whosoever wishes to stop the manufacture of malgamite will need to stop that brain," he said, with a soft laugh. "Of course there is a risk attached to burning that paper," he continued, after a pause.
Lord Ferriby bowed, and Major White looked at John Thompson with a placid interest, as if he felt glad of this opportunity of meeting one of the Thompson family. "And we've come to ask you to be so good as to explain your position as regards malgamite. What are ye, anyway?"
Joan thought that it was her duty to go to the malgamite works, and murmured the word "Nuxine," without, however, much enthusiasm; but White happened to remember that it was mixing-day. So Lord Ferriby went off alone in a hired carriage, as had been his intention from the first; for White knew even less about the ethics of commerce than did Cornish.
Some of its component parts were indeed exceedingly ancient, and, so to speak, gamey, while the Malgamite scheme alone might easily be magnified into a very passable scandal. Tony came into the room, keen and capable. He did not show much feeling. Perhaps Joan and he understood each other without any such display.
But no change is in the long run so apathetically accepted as the presence of a colony of aliens. Cornish soon learnt that the malgamite works were already accepted at Scheveningen as a fact of small local importance. One or two fish-sellers took their wares there instead of going direct to The Hague.
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