The Great Prince Shan

purlieus of Piccadilly and auction bridge, sauntered along at the back of the t

told her companion. "The men are such opposite types and

Chalmers, a more powerful and muscular type, also presented a fine appearance. The play was fast and sometimes brilliant. Nigel had Maggie for a partne

ope that Lord Dorminster and his cousin will win.

assented. "My sympathie

sun was troublesome, and the players were changing c

move me to wonder. In the small things as well as the large, you are so unchanging. I think that you would see an

true," was th

nemy," she continued, watchi

tred which I and millions of my fellow countrymen feel, it will cost you exactly one shilling. Go to any stationer's and buy a copy of the Tre

dded s

could feel what lay beyond the day-by-day horizon. When I think of that Treaty, my friend,

are you not then our f

engrossed in the tennis. Her compan

and in the spirit which has evolved and kept them alive through all these years. Then, on the other hand, I l

ll possible alliances," Immelan insisted. "Germany

d a great fleet of warships or ?roplanes; you cannot train great armies; you cannot lay up for yourselves all the store that is necessary for a successful war. So you bring your brains to Russia, and you ask u

rd you talk like this," Immelan decla

ng the people so far as I can. I find them such a kindly race. I find their present Government so unsuspicious, so genuinely altruistic. After all, that Treaty b

led a littl

to Petrograd and talk to Paul Matinsky as you are talking t

ook he

the tennis. I do not know whether it is my fancy, but that man there to your left, in grey, seems to me to be taking an interest in

sed in a grey tweed suit, clean-shaven and of early middle-age. There was nothing

en where the birds may listen, but it is so difficult. As for that man, he could not p

ssed in the play. Her eyes were fixed upon Nigel. It was his movements which she fo

matched," he re

ice," she declared, "but Lord Dorm

ut of reach of the opposing couple. The players strolled across to the seats under the trees. Naida smiled at Nigel, and he cam

ery well, Lord Dor

spiration,"

ur par

ng to play with. I was t

d in tennis," she remarked, wi

d y

more

ia," he begged, seating hims

my tennis at Cannes, where, curiously e

then?" he aske

from Spain to Monte Carlo. Cannes was v

ich stirred his pulses. He looked up and met her eyes. For a moment the world of tennis fields, of pleasant c

gie," he begged. "Perhaps Mr. Immela

but coldly furious. The

eared. On one of their vacated chairs was seated the quiet-looking stranger i

e said. "Jesson, this is Lord Dorminst

a little vaguely. He was at fir

our Intelligence Department, until he resigned a few months ago. I think that if you could spare an hour or two any t

d dine in Belgrave Square to-night? I was going to ask you, anyhow, Chalm

ll understand," he added, "that the information which Mr. Chalmer

l no

selves afterwards," he suggested. "At ei

le desultory conversation. Chalme

n on this, Dorminster: there isn't another living person who knows

ed his job, then?

at to-night," was Ch