L. P. M.

llowing morning, Lord Rockstone with

theory. Your drawings are most interesting; your photographs convincing, if-" he paused, his lip curling slightly under his long tawny moustache,-"if one did not know

e might have said too mu

; you may have both perhaps been deceived. I hope that your stay in England may be pleasant, and I regret that this

last minute of my most valuable time that I intend to give to this nonse

ng up, "Good morni

f to show the slightest trace of

r," he said; and standing perfectly still until he had forced Lord Roc

owed that although he would not condescend to notice it, he was both conscious of

belated show of courtesy came from behin

dinary people," he said; "I must ad

Englishmen. If there had been the same clear understanding on your side in the present instance it would have

preposterous. If you really wish to sell something to the War Department, although I understand you to state that you do not, nothing is simpler. Ship one of your machines to England, give a demonstration, and whereas I cannot speak with authority, I am confident that

ejoin Colonel Wyatt, who had stood stiffly at attention through

he said, "that England six months

ve visitor than he caught up the telephone. "Get me the Admiralty, and present my complime

left upon his desk to sign, but ha

reign Department at Washington is just silly enough to believe that it can frighten us with its manufactured photo

ephone

ive him an audience, for he has such strong letters from the American Government that one might imagine he was a special envoy sent to offer armed intervention

ds to have discovered some new agency or force, don't you know, and tries to prove by a lot of double-exposed photographs that he has broken

men whom it would be unwise to offend at this time. Just listen to his twaddle about universal peace

building, when he found himself accosted in the dimly lighted corridor by a man in ci

rings you into the very den of the lion? Is it that, like myself, you are helping dea

Make her pay well for them, my boy; she would not

my contracts, but at the same time avoided divulg

what pro-German sympathies. Edestone had at the time attributed this to a consideration for their host and to the fact that the German Ambassador was present; but he recalled that, although the speaker was most violent in his protestations of neutrality, someone had suggested at the time that he was of a German family

d anything of the kind to sell, that it would be to your friend, Count Bernstoff. However," he laid his hand on the oth

ointment on hand with one of the bure

ping at Claridge's and shall be awfully glad if you can come. I am entirely

lish swells. Let's make this a quiet little American dinne

ock, then," Ed

member. That is the only safe kind

down the corridor and out of the building. His appointment with Underhill, Chief of the Admiralty,

under his heel; whereas now he saw plainly that Rockstone considered him beneath his notice, and thereby much valuable time had been lost. Yet he did not wish to make any show of force until he knew positively that his men were all at their stations, and that the Little Peace

ade some alterations at the Little Place in the Country for Edestone himself. He was a tall, lank young man of about twenty-seven, with little rat-like eyes, placed so close to his hawk-like nose that one felt Nature would have been kind

Aren't you afraid that these Englishmen

st be a fighting German, when you know that I am a perfectly good naturalized American citizen. My passport is made out in the n

have not told me what

by the Royal Institute of Architects." Then, lowering his voice, and keeping his eyes on a policeman who was apparently watching them with interest: "I am sorry to see y

pted by the policeman who said: "Excuse me, gentlemen, but these