CHAPTER FOUR.
He might really be backing a foreign, philanthropic ruler and State-founder, and a British Foreign Minister, against the rather sinister Chancellor of the Exchequer that Mr.Gurnard undoubtedly was.
It might suit him; perhaps he had shares in something or other that depended on the success of the Duc de Mersch's Greenland Protectorate.

I knew well enough, you must remember, that Fox was a big man--one of those big men that remain permanently behind the curtain, perhaps because they have a certain lack of comeliness of one sort or another and don't look well on the stage itself.

And I understood now that if he had abandoned--as he had done--half a dozen enterprises of his own for the sake of the _Hour_, it must be because it was very well worth his while.

It was not merely a question of the editorship of a paper; there was something very much bigger in the background.

My Dimensionist young lady, again, might have other shares that depended on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's blocking the way.