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Why should we, too, not speak of fateful things?" Mr. Draconmeyer glanced around. "For myself," he muttered, "I must say that I prefer a smaller room and a locked door." Selingman demolished a chocolate éclair and shook his head vigorously. "The public places for me," he declared. "Now look around. There is no one, as you will admit, within ear-shot. Very well.
"So we are arrived," he said presently. "The Houses of Parliament, eh? I enter with you, Maraton. You find me a corner where I sleep while the others speak, and wake at the sound of your voice. Afterwards, late to-night, we shall go to Maxendorf." It happened to be a quiet evening in the House, and Maraton and Selingman dined together at a little before eight o'clock.
In these days their slave hire is thrown at them by an interloping person who calls himself an employer. In the days to come it will be different." "You beat time, then!" Selingman cried. "You head the waves! My friend Maraton, they are right, those who turned me out of my villa at Versailles and sent me over to you. They were right, indeed! I have business with you, man an inspiration to share.
"Jean Coulois came to me a quarter of an hour ago. It is finished. Damnation, Draconmeyer, let go my arm!" Draconmeyer withdrew his fingers. There was no longer any stoop about him at all. He stood tall and straight, his lips parted, his face turned upwards, upwards as though he would gaze over the roof of the hotel before which they were standing, up to the skies. "My God, Selingman!" he cried.
Draconmeyer glanced at the hotel and back again at his companion. "In where?" he demanded. "In the hotel? I left Lady Hunterleys there a short time ago. I have been up to the bank since." "You don't know yet, then?" "Know what?" There was a momentary silence. Draconmeyer suddenly gripped his companion by the arm. "Go on," he insisted. "Tell me?" "It's all over!" Selingman exclaimed hoarsely.
Thus it is that I look forward to my business trip as a holiday." "Very pleasant, I'm sure," Norgate remarked, curling himself up in his corner. "Personally, I can't see why we can't make our own crockery. I get tired of seeing German goods in England." Herr Selingman was apparently a trifle hurt, but his efforts to make himself agreeable were indomitable.
Norgate. We take dinner with him to-night." The youth shook hands without enthusiasm. His manner towards Selingman was cold. At Norgate he glanced once or twice with something approaching curiosity. Stralhaus proceeded to make conversation. "Our young friend," he explained, addressing Norgate, "is an exile in London. He belongs to an unfortunate country. He is a native of Bosnia."
They lunched at a roadside inn in Buckinghamshire, an inn ivy-covered, with a lawn behind, and a garden full of cottage flowers. Selingman with his own hands dragged out the table from the little sitting-room, through the open windows to a shaded corner of the lawn, drew the cork from a bottle of wine, and taking off his coat, started to make a salad. "Insects everywhere," he remarked cheerfully.
"I am forgotten!" he cried, holding out his hand to Hunterleys, "forgotten already! Sir Henry, there are many who forget me as a humble Minister of my master, but there are few who forget me physically. I am Selingman. We met in Berlin, six years ago. You came with your great Foreign Secretary."
"I, because I have a mission, things to explain to our friend here, if he will but listen." "Listen of course he will listen!" Selingman interrupted. "You two what was it the Oracle called you both the world's deliverers. Put your heads together and decide how you are going to do it. The people over here, Max, are rotting in their kennels. Sink-holes they live in. Live! What a word!"
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