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Updated: June 21, 2025
"There is great news," Selingman announced gravely. "There is news of wonderful import. In a few minutes you will hear the shouting of the boys in the Strand there. You shall hear it first from me. Germany has found herself compelled to declare war against Russia." They were both speechless. Norgate was carried off his feet. The reality of the thing was stupendous.
However," he added, raising his glass to his lips and nodding, "they haven't found me out yet." "I hear," Hebblethwaite muttered, "that the bookstalls are loaded with this sort of rubbish. You do it very well, though." "Oh! I am the real thing all right," Norgate declared. "By-the-by, what's the matter with you?" "Nothing," Hebblethwaite replied.
It's a matter of discount " "Send him to Mr. Vermont. I know nothing of his bill or his discount. Surely you know that, Norgate," Leroy interrupted impatiently. The discreet Norgate retreated silently; and ten minutes later Leroy started for his morning canter in the Row.
They won't believe that the storm is gathering." "Don't I know it!" Norgate assented earnestly. "Why, Hebblethwaite here has always been a great friend of mine. I have done all I can to influence him. He simply laughs in my face.
He had received high praise for his share in it. Every one who had seen him that day spoke of him as in absolutely capital form. Suddenly he whips out a revolver from his desk and shoots himself, and all that any one knows is that he was rung up by some one on the telephone. There's a puzzle for you, Norgate." Norgate made no reply. He felt Selingman's eyes upon him.
There was another and a more prolonged silence. Norgate rose at last to his feet. He walked restlessly to the end of the room and back again. A dark mass of clouds had rolled up; the air seemed almost sulphurous with the presage of a coming storm. They looked out into the gathering darkness. "I don't understand," he said. "You are Austrian; that is the same as German.
Tell me at once, what was your report to Germany?" "I reported that Italy would certainly fulfil the terms of her alliance and fight," Norgate replied. "Furthermore, I have convinced my chief over here that under no possible circumstances would the present Cabinet sanction any war whatsoever.
I believe that in another minute I should have said something to you absolutely ravishing. Then your telephone rings and back one comes to earth again!" Norgate smiled as he held her hand in his. "We will get rid of him quickly, dearest," he promised. There was a knock at the door, and Selingman entered, his face wreathed in smiles. He was wearing a long dinner coat and a flowing black tie.
To amuse oneself is good, but to work is better still. Have you, by chance, any report to make?" "I have had a long conversation with Mr. Hebblethwaite at Ranelagh this afternoon," Norgate announced. There was a sudden change in Selingman's expression, a glint of eagerness in his eyes. "With Hebblethwaite! You have begun well.
The Kaiser has given me to understand that your presence in Berlin is unwelcome." "Good God!" Norgate exclaimed. "Can you offer me any explanation?" For a moment Norgate was speechless. Then he recovered himself. He forgot altogether his habits of restraint. There was an angry note in his tone. "It's that miserable young cub of a Prince Karl!" he exclaimed.
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