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Dorward nodded gloo any chances up there," he remarked "There wasn't a secretary in the room Carstairs was nearly thrown out, and he had a perreat staircase was held with soldiers, and Dick swore that there were Maxihed

"We shall hear the roar of bigger guns before we are lanced at his friend keenly "You believe that?"

Bella is for nothing?" he asked "When Austria, Ger in a corner, can't you believe it is across the North Sea that they point? Things have been shaping that way for years, and the tilish are too nervous to live, nowadays," Dorward declared impatiently "I'd just like to knohat they said about America"

Bellamy smiled with faint but delicate irony

"Without a doubt, the Prince will tell you," he said "He can scarcely doyou a special interview--you alone out of about two hundred journalists Very likely he will give you an exact account of everything that transpired First of all, he will assure you that this ht about in the interests of peace He will tell you that the welfare of your dear country is forehts of his master He will assure you--"

"Say, you're jealous, ive me for my ten minutes alone with the Chancellor, eh?"

"If he told iveto hear, I'd give nothing Can't you realize that for yourself, Dorward? You know the rasp your hand; he will declare hilo-Saxon races--to England and to his dear friends the Americans He is only too pleased to have the opportunity of expressing himself candidly and openly Peace is to be the ord of the future The white doves have hovered over the Palace The rulers of the earth have met that the crash of arms may be stilled and that this terrible unrest which broods over Europe shall finally be broken up They have pledged theether for this object,--Russia, broken and humiliated, but with an i her place a the nations is another and a successful war; Austria, on fire for the seaboard--Austria, to ould give the desire of her existence; Germany, with Bismarck's last but secret words written in letters of fire on the walls of her palaces, in the hearts of her rulers, in the brain of her great Emperor Colonies! Expansion! Empire! Whose colonies, I wonder? Whose empire? Will he tell you that, my friend Dorward?"