Will Blithers."
"All right," said he, more humbly than he knew, "But listen to this,
old girl; I'm going to get this prince for her if it's the last act
of my life. I never failed in anything and I won't fail in this."
"Well, go to bed, dear, and don't worry. I may be able to undo the
mischief. It--it isn't hopeless, of course."
"I'll trust you, Lou, to do your part. Count on me to do mine when
the time comes. And I still insist that I have sowed the right sort
of seed to-night. You'll see. Just wait."
Sure enough, Mr. Blithers was off for New York soon after daybreak
the next morning, and with him went a mighty determination to justify
himself before the week was over. His wily brain was working as it
had never worked before.
Two days later, Count Quinnox received a message from New York
bearing the distressing information that the two private banking
institutions on which he had been depending for aid in the hour of
trouble had decided that it would be impossible for them to make the
loan under consideration. The financial agents who had been operating
in behalf of the Graustark government confessed that they were unable
to explain the sudden change of heart on the part of the bankers,
inasmuch as the negotiations practically had been closed with them.
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