They concern you." Dominey seemed to stiffen a little.
"Well ?" "I am given to understand," the Ambassador continued, "that you practically exist only in the event of that catastrophe which I, for one, cannot foresee.

I am assured that if your expose should take place at any time, your personation will be regarded as a private enterprise, and there is nothing whatever to connect you with any political work." "Up to the present that is absolutely so," Dominey agreed.
"I am further advised to look upon you as my unnamed and unsuspected successor here, in the event of war.

For that reason I am begged to inaugurate terms of intimacy with you, to treat you with the utmost confidence, and, if the black end should come, to leave in your hands all such unfulfilled work as can be continued in secrecy and silence.

I perhaps express myself in a somewhat confused manner." "I understand perfectly," Dominey replied.

"The authorities have changed their first idea as to my presence here.