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It is for this purpose that I am seeking this interview with him. I tell you this much in confidence. I cannot tell you more." My cousin smiled in a somewhat superior manner. "You have got a cheek," he said. "As though any information you could pick up would be worth bothering Polloch with!" I glanced at the clock and leaned back in my chair.
Lord Esherville assured me solemnly that the whole affair was absurd and impossible. Polloch declares that we have been brought to the brink of war with Germany twice already, through treating her overtures with too much suspicion. He is absolutely determined that the mistake shall not be repeated." "How about the massing of troops on the French frontier?" I asked.
"I want you to see Polloch for us." He nodded. "Am. I to tell him everything?" "Everything," I answered. "We have our Secret Service, I suppose, the same as other countries. It ought to be easy enough for them to act on our information." "Have you seen the papers this morning?" he asked suddenly. "No!" I answered. "Is there any news?"
In view of the better understanding, however, now existing between the two governments, a speedy agreement is believed certain." "We shall have an ultimatum," Gilbert declared grimly, "as soon as our ships are safely anchored in Kiel harbor. Polloch may change his tone then, but he will be a little too late. What can we do, Jim? Whom can we appeal to?" "Heaven only knows!" I answered.
"I am risking my life over this business, Gilbert, and we can none of us tell which way the pendulum will swing. I know that Polloch is one of the old school of statesmen, and hates Secret Service work. If it were not for that, such a plot as this could never have been developed under his very nose. "It's a large order, Jim!" "It's got to be," I answered.
"Too much self-confidence, too little belief in the possibility of the unusual," I answered. "Suppose you appoint me arbitrator," Gilbert suggested. I shook my head. "I cannot, Gilbert," I answered. "As I have said, the issue is between Lord Polloch and myself, and I hope to Heaven that Lord Polloch is in the right, or there will be trouble."
I lit a cigarette and threw myself into an easy-chair. "Quiet afternoon here?" I remarked. "You saw Lord Polloch?" I nodded. "I was with him exactly twenty-five minutes," I answered. "Well?" he repeated. I called a waiter and ordered something to drink. I felt that I needed it. "My dear Gilbert," I said, "I will not affect to misunderstand you!
Lord Polloch says that Germany's friendship is absolutely necessary to us just now, and his Cabinet are determined to secure it." "They will," I muttered, "at a price. Lady Dennisford, you will excuse me, I know. I must hurry back and see Guest." "What is there left for you to do?" "Heaven only knows!" I answered. "I am afraid we are at the end of our tether.
"They may stop the paper," I said; "but Staunton's word and these events should go for something with Polloch." Guest looked at me and away out of the window. Adele was behind us, and out of hearing. "Do you suppose," he said in a low tone, "that Staunton or any of us are meant to leave this place alive? I am afraid our friends below know too well what they are doing."
He scarcely waited until we were off before he began. "Hardross!" he asked, "what's up?" "Nothing particular," I answered lamely. "Rubbish!" he declared, "you are the last man in the world I should have expected to see in town the second week in September! You haven't come for nothing, have you? And then this interview with Lord Polloch. What on earth can you have to say to the Prime Minister?"
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