31/60 I'll show them the five volumes with his name in each. How much did that thing cost you ?" "Two hundred dollars in bribes," said Stetson briskly, "and two months of diplomacy." "I haven't got two months for diplomacy," said Peter, "so I'll have to increase the bribes. I'll stay here and get the decoration for Gilman, and you work the papers at home. No one ever heard of the Order of the Crescent, but that only makes it the easier for us. They'll only know what we tell them, and we'll tell them it's the highest honor ever bestowed by a reigning sovereign upon an American scholar. |