I'm at the head of a syndicate that's controlling some very valuable patents which we want to exploit on this side and in Paris.

Now my people don't exactly know how we stand under this new patent bill of Mr.Lloyd George's.

Accordingly they wrote across to Mr.Blaine-Harvey, putting the matter to him, and asking him to give me his opinion the moment I arrived on this side.

You see, it was no use our entering into contracts if we had to build the plant and make the stuff over here.

We didn't stand any earthly show of making it pay that way.