E Phillips Oppenheim

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Book Excerpt: ... The great staircase was held with soldiers, and Dick swore that there were Maxims in the corridors."Bellamy sighed."We shall hear the roar of bigger guns before we are many months older, Dorward," he declared. The journalist glanced at his friend keenly. "You believe that?"Bellamy shrugged his shoulders."Do you suppose that this meeting is for nothing?" he asked. "When Austria, Germany and Russia stand whispering in a corner, can't you believe it is across the North Sea that they point? Things have been shaping that way for years, and the time is almost ripe.""You English are too nervous to live, nowadays," Dorward declared impatiently. "I'd just like to know what they said about America."Bellamy smiled with faint but delicate irony."Without a doubt, the Prince will tell you," he said. "He can scarcely do more to show his regard for your country. He is giving you a special interview - you alone out of about two hundred journalists. Very likely he...