The talk of money always leaves a copperish taste on my tongue." Arm in arm they passed from the chamber.

When the door closed behind them, the minister of finance drew his handkerchief across his brow.
"Everard & Co.," mused the Englishman aloud.

"Was it not indeed a stroke for your cousin to select them as his agents?
You will in truth be accused of selling out to the English.

But there is a coincidence in all this." "I am lost!" said the king.
"On the contrary, you are saved.

Everard & Co.