"Is that also calculated ?" Seaman, with trembling fingers, unlocked the little despatch box which stood by his side and took from it jealously a sheet of linen-backed parchment.
"You, my friend," he said, "are one of the first to gaze upon this.

This will show you the dream of our Kaiser.

This will show you the framework of the empire that is to be." He laid out a map upon the table.

The two men bent over it.

It was a map of Europe, in which England, a diminished France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, were painted in dark blue.