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But it occurs to me that if I might enter the Intelligence Department of Salissa, there'd be no interference with my work in the palace. Anything I could do to make you comfortable. But as agent of the Queen's Secret Service I should be I hope you catch my point, sir. You see I held a commission at one time in the Megalian Army."
Gorman," he went on, "you get hold of Smith and send him up here to me." I think it was then that Gorman first realized the strength of Donovan's personality. The Queen, though she was in a high passion of patriotism and defiance, left the room without a word. Konrad Karl spluttered a little, uttering a series of ill-assorted oaths, but he walked off the Megalian admiral and put him into a boat.
Konrad Karl used to go down to the palace steps and see her off. He never ventured into a boat himself. He had an uneasy feeling that the Megalian admiral was watching him and would kidnap him at once if he left the security of the land. The Queen's unfriendliness did not trouble him much. "The American girl," he said to Gorman, "would not have done for me, or do I say she would have done for me?
They had very little chance of getting accurate information. The ark had only one window, and, if we can trust the artists who illustrate our Bibles, it was a kind of skylight. The refugees on Salissa if refugees is the proper word were in one respect worse off than Noah's family. They had no skylight. The wireless message sent to the Megalian admiral told them that the Great Powers were at war.
But this is not the ultimatum outrage of the Megalian Government. Behind it, in the rear of its elbow, stands " "Of course he does," said Gorman. "That darned Emperor?" said Donovan. Gorman nodded.
His uniform was almost entirely covered with gold braid. Gold cords with tassels at their ends hung in festoons across his chest and down his back. He carried a large sword in a highly gilt sheath. On his head was a cocked hat with a tall pink feather in it, perhaps a plume from the tail of the Megalian vulture. Gorman received him with great respect and led him up to Donovan's room.
But the everlasting principle of all commerce proved its value in the case of the Megalian admiral. He did not even bargain at any length. Smith returned in rather less than half an hour, with the news that the admiral had accepted £26 10s. He made only one stipulation.
Konrad Karl was not a Greek, and his country did not produce wine which any one except a Megalian could drink. His value to Gorman lay in the fact that there was not another limited liability company in all England which had a King on its Board of Directors. One of the least objectionable of the wines which Gorman's company sold was put on the market as Vino Regalis.
I say 'By Jove, here is my neck." Sir Bartholomew Bland-Pottertan was greatly affected. He even promised that a British submarine would patrol the Megalian coast with a view to securing the king's safety. He might perhaps have gone on to offer a squadron of aeroplanes by way of body-guard, but while he was speaking, Madame burst into the room. She was evidently highly excited.
He had little to say about Megalia except that all the inhabitants are brigands. Steinwitz, managing director of the Cyrenian Sea Steam Navigation Company, professed to be interested in Megalia. He was certainly interested in the fact that Gorman was making inquiries about the country. He said that there were no harbours or possible ports of call on the Megalian coast.
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