23/64 He was an international politician and financier--a nobody. He, like many others, was admitted only to feed and amuse Henry Allegre's scorn of the world, which was insatiable--I tell you." "Yes," said Mills. Often when we were alone Henry Allegre used to pour it into my ears. If ever anybody saw mankind stripped of its clothes as the child sees the king in the German fairy tale, it's I! Into my ears! A child's! Too young to die of fright. |