It was here at any rate that he wrote the
notes on official note paper.
"They haven't settled as yet how they're to be off it," said Currie
in a whisper, as soon as the two men were gone, "but I'll bet a
five-pound note that Bell Trefoil doesn't go out to Patagonia as
his wife."
"We know the Senator here well enough." This was said in the inner
room by Mounser Green to Morton, who had breakfasted with the
Senator that morning and had made an appointment to meet him at the
Foreign Office. The Senator wanted to secure a seat for himself at
the opening of Parliament which was appointed to take place in the
course of the next month, and being a member of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs in the American Senate of course thought himself
entitled to have things done for him by the Foreign Office clerks.
"Oh yes, I'll see him. Lord Drummond will get him a seat as a
matter of course. How is he getting on with your neighbour at
Dillsborough?"
"So you've heard of that."
"Heard of it! who hasn't heard of it?"--At this moment the
messenger came in again and the Senator was announced. "Lord
Drummond will manage about the seats in the House of Lords, Mr.
Gotobed. Of course he'll see you if you wish it; but I'll take a
note of it"
"If you'll do that, Mr. Green, I shall be fixed up straight. And
I'd a great deal sooner see you than his lordship.
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