"Remember that we should hold Calais, and we should be assured at least of the amiable neutrality of your fleet.

We have spoken of matters so intimate that I do not know whether in this absolute privacy I should not be justified in going further and disclosing to you our whole scheme for an attack upon the English Navy.

It would need only an expression of your sympathy with those views which we have discussed, to induce me to do so." Monsieur Douaille hesitated for several moments before he replied.
"I am a citizen of France," he said, "an envoy without powers to treat.
My own province is to listen." "But your personal sympathies ?" Selingman persisted.
"I have sometimes thought," Monsieur Douaille confessed, "that the present grouping of European Powers must gradually change.

If your country, for instance," he added, turning to Mr.Grex, "indeed embraces the proposals of Herr Selingman, France must of necessity be driven to reconsider her position towards England.

The Anglo-Saxon race may have to battle then for her very existence.