And now there had come this little cloud.

It was small enough at present, but Mr.Harvey was not the one to overlook its sinister possibilities.

Two citizens of his country had been barbarously murdered within the space of a few hours, one in the heart of the most thickly populated capital in the world, and there was a certain significance attached to this fact which the Ambassador himself and those others at Washington perfectly well realized.

He glanced once more at the most recent letter on the top of this pile of correspondence and away again out into the Park.

It was a difficult matter, this.