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I have been to Sheffield and listened. Don't be prejudiced, Max. Wait." Maxendorf motioned them to seats and stood with his finger upon the bell. "Yes," Selingman assented, "we will drink with you. You breathe of the Rhine, my friend. I see myself sitting with you in your terraced garden, drinking Moselle wine out of cut glasses. So it shall be. We will fall into the atmosphere.
Foley went on, "that he wrote all night at the office in Fleet Street, and that his sheets were flung into type as he wrote them. Selingman, too the great Selingman! You know him?" "He travelled down from Sheffield with me last night," Maraton answered. "A more dangerous person even than you," Mr. Foley observed, "and an Anglophobe. Never mind, what did we call about, Elisabeth?"
A wonderful pair, indeed! When May comes, they go to the music-halls in Paris and London." Draconmeyer nodded approval. "Coulois was the name," he whispered to Selingman, as the man moved away. The place filled up slowly. Presently the supper was served. Selingman ate with appetite, Draconmeyer only sparingly. The latter, however, drank more freely than usual.
What if your people should assume the guise of conquerors, should garrison our towns with foreign soldiers, demand a huge indemnity, and then, withdrawing, leave us to our fate? You have no guarantees to offer me, Maxendorf." "None but my word," Maxendorf confessed quietly. "You bargain like a politician!" Selingman cried. "Man, can't you see the glory of it?"
If you will, I will discuss the subject you mentioned the other day. Of course I shall say 'No! I am not nearly ready to be married yet. But I should like to hear your arguments." Their heads grew closer and closer together. They were almost touching when Selingman and Rosa Morgen came in. Selingman paused before their table. "Well, well, young people!" he exclaimed.
The banker deplores it as much as the politician. It's the money-kings, I suppose, who find it profitable." They returned to their table a moment later. As he passed Douaille, Selingman whispered in his ear. Monsieur Douaille turned around at once and bowed to Simpson. As he caught the latter's eye he, too, left his place and came across. Mr. Simpson rose to his feet.
He begged me to tell you that they were the scum of the earth; that from Newcastle to the Thames the men who stand idle to-day wait in faith and trust for your word and yours only. He will be here before long." Selingman nodded ponderously. His mouth was very full, but he did not delay his speech. "You have brought a splendid message, young man," he pronounced. "Sit down and eat with us.
Our people are already warned as to the long conferences which have taken place between Grex and Selingman. They mean something there's no doubt about that. And then this invitation to Douaille, and his coming here so furtively. Everything points the same way, but a few spoken words are better than all the surmises in the world.
Selingman glanced towards the table at which Miss Morgen had already seated herself. "I must not neglect my duties," he remarked, turning away. "Especially," Anna murmured, glancing across the room, "when they might so easily be construed into pleasures." Selingman beamed amiably. "The young lady," he said, "is more than ornamental she is extremely useful.
"It concerns the affair in which we are interested. Linger over your coffee and I will return." Mr. Simpson nodded and Hunterleys left the restaurant with Felicia. His wife, at whom he glanced for a moment, kept her head averted. She was whispering in the ear of the gallant Monsieur Douaille. Selingman, catching Draconmeyer's eye, winked at him solemnly.
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