[The Double Traitor by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Double Traitor CHAPTER X 14/20
I came for a bigger thing.
I came to try and make you see a danger, the reality of which I have just begun to appreciate myself for the first time in my life." Mr.Hebblethwaite's manner slowly changed.
He pulled down his waistcoat, finished off a glass of wine, and leaned forward. "Norgate," he said, "I am sorry that this is the frame of mind in which you have come to me.
I tell you frankly that you couldn't have appealed to a man in the Cabinet less in sympathy with your fears than I myself." "I am sorry to hear that," Norgate replied grimly, "but go on." "Before I entered the Cabinet," Mr.Hebblethwaite continued, "our relations with Foreign Powers were just the myth to me that they are to most people who read the _Morning Post_ one day and the _Daily Mail_ the next.
However, I made the best part of half a million in business through knowing the top and the bottom and every corner of my job, and I started in to do the same when I began to have a share in the government of the country.
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