Becker declares that every reparation was offered.

Scanlon takes a pride to recapitulate the leases and the situations he refused, and the long interviews in which he was tempted and plied with drink by Becker or Beckmann of the firm.

No doubt, in short, that he was offered reparation in reason and out of reason, and, being thoroughly primed, refused it all.

Meantime some answer must be made to Leary; and Fritze repeated on the 8th his oft-repeated assurances that he was not authorised to deal with politics.

The same day Leary retorted: "The question is not one of diplomacy nor of politics.