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"What a howling optimist you are!" Norgate observed. "My young friend," Hebblethwaite protested, "I am nothing of the sort. I am simply a man of much common sense, enjoying, I may add, a few hours' holiday. By-the-by, Norgate, if one might venture to enquire without indiscretion, who was the remarkably charming foreign lady whom you were escorting?" "The Baroness von Haase," Norgate replied.
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.
Hebblethwaite exclaimed, as he took a long draught of his whisky and soda, lit a cigar, and leaned back in his chair, "the neutrality of Belgium is guaranteed by a treaty, actually signed by Germany!" "Supposing she should break her treaty?" Norgate persisted. "I told you what I heard in the train the other night. It isn't for nothing that that sort of work is going on."
Father says, when Angus and Mr Keith come back, we will have Ephraim Hebblethwaite and Ambrose Catterall to spend the evening, and perhaps Esther Langridge too. I don't feel quite sure that I should like Esther to come.
I did offer him that million pounds on behalf of Germany, and he did indignantly refuse it, but the point of the whole thing is my report to Germany." "And that?" Mr. Hebblethwaite asked eagerly. "I reported Mr. Bullen's acceptance of the sum," Norgate told them.
"Still personal, eh?" he enquired. Norgate shook his head. "It is something of vastly more importance," he said, "than any question affecting my welfare. I am almost afraid to begin for fear I shall miss any chance, for fear I may not seem convincing enough." "We'll have the champagne opened at once, then," Mr. Hebblethwaite declared. "Perhaps that will loosen your tongue.
We shall need two million men. Hebblethwaite believes we shall get them long before the camps are ready to receive them. If we do, it will be his justification." "And if we don't?" Anna murmured. Norgate threw his head a little further back. "Most pictures," he said, "have two sides, but we need only look at one. I am going to believe that we shall get them.
"I have reasons to believe," Wyatt announced deliberately, "reasons which are quite sufficient for me, although it was impossible for me to get up in Parliament and state them, that Germany is secretly making preparations for war either before the end of this year or the beginning of next." Hebblethwaite threw himself into an easy-chair. "Sit down, Wyatt," he said.
"We arrived in London last night, my dear Caroline, and are very desirous of seeing you. Could you meet me at Mr Raymond's house this afternoon? Mr Hebblethwaite will be so good as to call for you, if you can come. Love from both to you and Hester. Your affectionate friend, A. K." Come! I should think I would come! I only hoped Annas already knew of my share in the plot to rescue Angus.
"I think you will find " "Friend or no friend," the Irishman interrupted, "he is a traitor, and I tell you so to his face." "That is exactly what I wished you to tell Mr. Hebblethwaite," Norgate remarked, nodding pleasantly. "I just want you to recall the circumstances of my first visit here." "You came and offered me a bribe of a million pounds," Mr.
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