Blithers,
anxiously.
"Don't you worry," said he. "She'll turn up safe and sound and
enthusiastic before she's a week older. We'll have plain sailing from
now on, Lou."
CHAPTER XXII
A VISIT TO THE CASTLE
Mr. Blithers indeed experienced plain sailing for the ensuing twenty
hours. It was not until just before he set forth at two the next
afternoon to attend, by special appointment, a meeting of the cabinet
in the council chamber at the Castle that he encountered the first
symptom of squalls ahead.
He had sent his secretary to the Castle with a brief note suggesting
an early conference. It naturally would be of an informal character,
as there was no present business before them. The contracts had
already been signed by the government and by his authorised agents.
So far as the loan was concerned there was nothing more to be said.
Everything was settled. True, it was still necessary to conform to a
certain custom by having the Prince affix his signature to the
contract over the Great Seal of State, but as he previously had
signed an agreement in New York this brief act was of a more or less
perfunctory nature.
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