“But your future?”
“I’m not in line of promotion.”
“Impossible! Politics?”
“Exactly. I’ve no pull to speak of.”
“But your service?”
“I’ve been paid for that.”
“Isn’t there any other way?”
“Oh, yes,” Burnett laughed, “that treaty. I happened to know something about it when[37] I was out there. It has to do with neutrality, trade ports and coaling stations; but just what, the devil only knows, and his deputy, Baron Arnim, won’t tell. Arnim is now in Washington, ostensibly sight-seeing, but really to confer with Von Schlichter, the ambassador there, about it. You see, we’ve got rather more closely into the Eastern question than we really like, and a knowledge of Germany’s attitude is immensely important to us.”
“Pray go on,” drawled Crabb.
“That’s all there is. The rest was a joke. Crowthers wants me to get the text of that treaty from Baron Arnim’s dispatch-box.”
“Entertaining!” said Crabb, with clouding brow. And then, after a pause, with all the seriousness in the world: “And aren’t you going to?”
Burnett turned to look at him in surprise.
“What?”
“Get it. The treaty.”
“The treaty! From Baron Arnim! You don’t know much of diplomacy, Crabb.”
“You misunderstood me,” he said, coolly; and then, with lowered voice:
“Not from Baron Arnim—from Baron Arnim’s dispatch-box.”
Burnett looked at his acquaintance in a maze. Crabb had been thought
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