"You do not know
how to look after yourself. You will never make any money!"
It was one o'clock the next morning before Guest and I turned homeward to
our rooms, for we had thought it well to separate, and I could tell him
what had passed between Lady Dennisford and myself. He heard me without
interruption, but I saw his face twitch with anxiety.
"It is almost the last chance," he muttered.
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE BLACK BAG
Lady Dennisford had failed. I saw it in her face as soon as I entered the
room, and her first few words confirmed it.
"It's no use, Jim," she declared. "I've done my best, but there isn't a
soul who will listen to me."
"Good God!" I murmured, and sat down on the sofa.
"There is not a single man in the Cabinet of the slightest influence,"
she continued, "who will take this affair seriously. Lord Esherville
assured me solemnly that the whole affair was absurd and impossible.
Polloch declares that we have been brought to the brink of war with
Germany twice already, through treating her overtures with too much
suspicion.
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