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"Von Ragastein," he said at last, "I have sent for you to have a feords concerning your habitation in England I wish you to receive your impressions of your reat honour," Dominey murmured

"I wish you to consider yourself," the Kaiser continued, "as entirely removed froe systes I desire you to enter into the spirit of your assuentleman I desire you to study the labour question, the Irish question, the progress of this National Service scheme, and other social movements of which you will receive notice in due time I desire a list compiled of those writers who, in the Reviews, or bythe suspicions which I aun to entertain towards the Fatherland These things are all on the fringe of your real mission That, I believe, our admirable friend Seaman has already confided to you It is to seek the friendship, if possible the intimacy, of Prince Terniloff"

The Kaiser paused, and once more his eyes wandered to the landscape which rolled away frolass s of the car They were certainly not the eyes of a drea pictures

"The Princess has already received raciously," Dominey confided

"Terniloff is the dove of peace," the Kaiser pronounced "He carries the sprig of olive in his mouth My statesmen and counsellors would have sent to London an ambassador with sterner qualities I preferred not Terniloff is the ull fools, because he is a fool himself He is a fit ambassador for a country which has not the wit to arhtier,closer every day"

"The English appear to put their whole trust in their navy, your Majesty," Dominey observed tentatively

The eyes of his companion flashed His lips curled contemptuously

"Fools!" he exclaimed "Of what use will their navy be when my sword is once drahen I hold the coast towns of Calais and Boulogne, when my cannon command the Straits of Dover! The days of insular nations are passed, passed as surely as the days of England's arrogant suprelass and Dominey's