It depends upon this side of the Rhine." "What imagination! But for your credentials, Monsieur Ferraud, I should not listen to you one moment." "I have seen some documents." "Forgeries!" contemptuously.
"Not in the least," suavely.

"They are in every part genuine.

They are his own." The chancellor paused, frowning.

"Well, even then ?" Monsieur Ferraud shrugged.
"This fellow, who was forced to resign from the navy because of his tricks at cards, why I doubt if he could stir up a brawl in a tavern.
Really, if there was a word of truth in the affair, we should have acted before this.

It is all idle newspaper talk that Germany wishes war; far from it.