And complications have arisen which require prompt and wise action.

For this reason I am glad that we shall have the benefit of Judge Claiborne's advice." "Judge Claiborne is the counsel of our embassy," said the Ambassador.

His gaze was fixed intently on Armitage's face, and he hitched himself forward in his chair impatiently, grasping his crop nervously across his knees.
"You were anxious to find me, Baron, and I may have seemed hard to catch, but I believe we have been working at cross-purposes to serve the same interests." The Baron nodded.
"Yes, I dare say," he remarked dryly.
"And some other gentlemen, of not quite your own standing, have at the same time been seeking me.

It will give me great pleasure to present one of them--one, I believe, will be enough.

Mr.Claiborne, will you kindly allow Monsieur Jules Chauvenet to stand in the door for a moment?
I want to ask him a question." Shirley, sitting farthest from Armitage, folded her hands upon the long table and looked toward the door into which her brother vanished.