3/26 "It is over, and Europe is left to wonder." "They were together for scarcely more than an hour," Dorward murmured. "That little room in the Palace, my friend, may yet become famous." "If you and I could buy its secrets," Dorward remarked, finally shaping a cigarette and lighting it, "we should be big bidders, I think. I'd give fifty thousand dollars myself to be able to cable even a hundred words of their conversation." "For the truth," Bellamy said, "the whole truth, there could be no price sufficient. We made our effort in different directions, both of us. With infinite pains I planted--I may tell you this now that the thing is over--seven spies in the Palace. |