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Still less am I concerned with the state affairs of Megalia. I have no connection with Megalia." Gorman sat thinking for a while after Goldsturmer left him. The jeweller's visit and his questions were natural enough. Such inquiries are made every day. There was nothing surprising in the offer of one per cent. on the money which was to change hands in return for information.
How far do you think your Government will back you?" "Darned little," said Donovan. "So Steinwitz seemed to think. But the Emperor wasn't taking any unnecessary risks. He preferred that the island should return to the Crown of Megalia. I think that's the whole story so far as I know it. Perhaps now I ought to be getting off to see that admiral."
This lady had shared with him the palace, but not the throne, of Megalia. She accompanied him in his flight and subsequent wanderings. In these democratic days Grand Dukes, Kings, and even Emperors, must have some regard for appearances if they wish to keep their positions. It is painfully necessary to avoid open and flagrant scandal. Madame Corinne was a lady who showed wherever she was.
"I don't deny," he said, "that there's a soft spot somewhere in Donovan. But he's not that particular kind of fool. You may take it from me, Madame, that the price won't be paid till you have delivered the goods. You won't get more than a few thousands in advance until Miss Daisy is actually sitting on a throne with a gold crown on her head." "There is no crown in Megalia," said the King.
I don't kick against a reasonable percentage." It was Gorman's misfortune that all through the Megalia negotiations he had to deal with women as well as men, indeed sometimes with women rather than men. Donovan held it as an article of faith that anything in the world can be bought for money, if only there is money enough.
Donovan disliked dressing for dinner, a form of activity to which he was unaccustomed. He got it into his head that the father of the reigning monarch in a state like Megalia might be called on to wear uniforms, troublesome things with unusual buttons and straps, and change them two or three times a day.
"It will be as I say," he said. "Gorman knows. Corinne, though she says 'No, no, never, she knows. The people of Megalia, what are they? I will tell you. Butchers and pigs. Pork butchers. To them it is sport to kill a king. But you say 'Go, and Gorman says 'Go. And the cause of Europe says 'Go. And Corinne she also. Good. The Prime Minister of Megalia trots out his hatchet.
Ireland is a kind of laboratory for the culture of the mandarin bacillus. "May I," said Sir Bartholomew, "intrude on your time, and ask you one or two questions on a matter of some little importance?" Gorman had no objection to being asked questions. Whether he would answer them or not was another matter. "I think," said Sir Bartholomew, "that you know King Konrad Karl of Megalia."
Tell me, my friend, could you not start a company to develop, reform, improve Corinne and me. Believe me, it would be easier to do." Gorman realized that the development of Megalia was not an enterprise likely to attract the British capitalist. Still all things are possible in business, the business of company promoting. He set to work to collect what information he could about the country.
It would have been very awkward for a man in Sir Bartholomew's position to be caught in the act of hearing an Emperor called elephantine. "The Emperor," said Sir Bartholomew, "has approached the United States Ambassador on the subject, indirectly, I need scarcely say. He requests, indeed insists that Salissa shall at once be restored to the Crown of Megalia.
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