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"Yes, dear?"

"He has got hold of Lassen," she continued "I aet rid of Lassen, the better," Bellamy declared

"It is so difficult," she murmured, in a perplexed tone "The h he is uncomely, and a brute in many ways, he has served o," Bellamy insisted

She nodded

"Let us sit down for a few minutes," she said "I am tired"

She sank on to a seat and Bellahahtfully at it and across to Westminster

"Do they knoonder, your country-people?" she asked

"Half-a-dozen of theloomily, no more

"To-day," she declared, "I seem to have lost confidence I seeuns as I walk, to see the terror fall upon the faces of all these great croho throng your streets They are a stolid, unbelieving people--these The blohen it coht," he said "When one co the prophets of woe have preached, and how coey has been so long a but a jest Even I, in a way, am one of the unbelievers"

"You are not serious, David!" she exclaimed

"I am," he affirmed "I think that if we could read that document we should see that there is no plan there for the iland I think you would find that the bloould be struck simultaneously at our Colonies We should either have to submit or send a considerable fleet away from home waters Then, I presuain All the ti down, treaties would be defied, we should be scorned as though ere a nation of weaklings Austria would gather in what she wanted, and there would be no one to interfere"

Louise was very pale but her eyes were flashing fire

"It is thewhich has happened in history," she said, "this decadence of your country Once England held the scales of justice for the world Now she is no longer strong enough, and there is none to take her place David, even if you knohat that document contains, even then will it help very much?"