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“Hurowled “We are neither despots like the Russians nor weakling deht, the duty, the lofty duty, to seek more colonies”

“Good God, ot Gerot a sliver of Togoland, as I recall What more do you need?”

“Leopold, king of o Gerhtful share of Africa And South Aland has had too ”

The earl’s lips tightened, and he started to rise to his feet

Her him with smiles and pleasantries Strone settled back down in his chair, harrunant mastiff, “The colonies are already spoken for”

“Strone’s a darned good actor,” Isaac Bell told Archie

“Actor? What do you mean?”

“Ten-to-one he’s British Military Intelligence”

Archie Abbott looked more closely

“And twenty-to-one,” Bell added, “he’s not retired”

Archie, who himself would have become an actor if his mother had not forbidden such a leap froreement “No bet”

The Briton said to the Ger the spoils of war”

“Those powers that try to impede Ger we mete out and accept their place in the new order”

Lord Strone rounded suddenly on Isaac Bell “You, sir, you look like an American”

“I have that honor”