"You would be good company.

Some day, perhaps, I'll try your prescription; but I'm only a poor devil of a homeless, landless baron." Fitzgerald sat up.

"You surprise me." "Yes.

However, neither my father nor my grandfather used it, and as the pitiful few acres which went with it is a sterile Bavarian hillside, I have never used it, either.

Besides, neither the _Peerage_ nor the _Almanac de Gotha_ make mention of it; but still the patent of nobility was legal, and I could use it despite the negligence of those two authorities." "You could use it in America.