[The Yellow Crayon by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Yellow Crayon CHAPTER XXXIII 2/19
He drew Brott on one side. "The Westminster declared that you had left for Windsor by an early train this afternoon, and gives a list of your Cabinet.
The Pall Mall, on the other hand, declares that Letheringham will assuredly be sent for to-morrow." Brott shrugged his shoulders. "There are bound to be a crop of such reports at a time like this," he remarked. The Prince dropped his voice almost to a whisper. "Brott," he said, "there is something which I have had it in my mind to say to you for the last few days.
I am not perhaps a great politician, but, like many outsiders, I see perhaps a good deal of the game.
I know fairly well what the feeling is in Vienna and Berlin.
I can give you a word of advice." "You are very kind, Prince," Brott remarked, looking uneasily over his shoulder.
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