Even if we are prepared to defend, I am afraid that we shall see things on the Continent in which we shall be driven to interfere, or else suffer the greatest blow which our prestige has ever known.

If we could only tell what was coming!" he wound up, looking once more at those empty sheets of paper.

"It is this darkness which is so alarming!" Bellamy turned toward the door.
"You have the telephone in your bedroom, sir ?" he asked.
"Yes, ring me up at any time in the night or morning, if you have news." Bellamy drove at once to Dover Street.

It was half-past one, but he had no fear of not being admitted.

Louise's French maid answered the bell.
"Madame has not retired ?" Bellamy inquired.
"But no, sir," the woman assured him, with a welcoming smile.