We are scheming against you and your country, and you know it, and we shall win.

We can't help but win--if not to-day, to-morrow.

Your country has had a marvellously long run of good luck, but it can't last for ever." Hunterleys smiled.
"Well," he observed, "there's nothing like confidence.

If you are so sure of success, why couldn't you choose a cleaner way to it than by tampering with our ally ?" Selingman patted his companion on the shoulder.
"Listen, my friend," he said, "there are no such things as allies.

An alliance between two countries is a dead letter so soon as their interests cease to be identical.