Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-25

seldom mistaken. Tell me what piece of
! transcendental ill-fortune is this which
| brings you here an exile?''
| II committed an act Of transcendental
| folly" Julien replied "T have no one to
| blame but myself 1 not only wrote an
indiscreet letter. but put my name to it.
| l was deceived, too. in the character Of
| the woman to whom 1t was sent
! 1T is SO trif1ing an error Herr Freu-
I denberg said. thoughtfully made by
many man without evil results. One
learns experience as one passes on in life.
| 1t is hard price that YOU are paving for
yours. Come. that is finished. Now an
swer me. What are you going to do?"
| Julien laughed. little bitterly
My friend" he answered. stretching
out his hand and taking a cigarette from
the open box upon the table. you ask
/ rather hard question. My resignation
was accepted, was even required OF me.
Politics and diplomacy are alike barred
to ME. There is no return. What Is
there left? l may write book So far
as my means permit. I may travel. l
| may play games. take q walk in the
morning. play bridge in the afternoon.
eat heavily and sleep early. What is
Eyour wisdonl-for a man about whose ears
has come crashing the scaffolding of his
| life?'
+! Herr Freudenberg looked across at his
companion, and in that dimly lit room his
| eyes We're bright and his lips firm
ITO rebuild. my friend he declared.
Choose another foundation and rebuild
You recognize, | presume Julien said.
that | require a few more details If your
| advice is to be of value?''
THE details are here in this ROOM"
Herr FreudenberG replied, firmly. BE
my man. l cannot offer YOU fame. be-
cause fame comes only, nowadays. to the
man who serves his own country. You
but l offer you life Of action, l offer
| you such wealth as your imagination can
have conceived and l offer you revenge"
Revenge Julien repeated, a little
vaguely.
Upon the political party by whose
schemfng that letter was first of all ellie
| tied from you and then made public
Herr Freudenberg said slowly. do you
| Imagine that 1t was a thOughtless act of
| that woman's? Do you know that her re-
ward is to be a peerage for her hus-
\ band?' .
You. too. believe that it was a trap,
J then?' Julien remarked
'Of course. Don't You know yourself
| that you were a thorn in the flesh to
your own party? They hated you be-
| cause YOU were not afraid to preach war
when war might have saved your coun-
try from what is to come. They hated
You because you were a strong man in a
strong place and because the people be-
lieved in you. They hated you because
| the policy which would have been yours
: in the four or five years to come would
have been the policy which would have
| brought the country around you, which
alone would have kept your party in
| power. You were the only figure in poll
tics which the imperialist party In Eng
| land had to fear. Mrs. Carraby-I believe
| that was the lady's name-is ill-paid
enough with that peerage. Leave out the
| personal element-or leave it in, IL You
will. for when l speak of my country
know no friendships-but. my dear friend
/ let me tell you that / myself would have
/ q I,o
given a principality-to the person who
threw you out Of English politics.
Juiiens eyes We're bright. Somehow or
other his old dreams. his old faith in him.
self had returned for moment. And
then the bitterness all swept in upon him.
II think. Herr Freudehberg." he said
that you are talking little in the Skies
At any rate. it makes no difference
Those things have passed.
Those things have passed." Herr Freu-
! delberg assented. There is no future
for you in England. That is why I wish
to rescue you from the ignominy of which
you Yourself have spoken. | repeat my
and taste it in such gulps as you wish"
Julien shook his head slowly.
My friend.'' ne said. 1T is the cruel
part of our profession that one mans life
! can be given to one country alone
wrong. Herr Freudenberg declared
briskiy. am not going to decry pa
| triotism. The welfare of my country is
| the religion which guides my life But
you-you have no country. There is no
england left for you. She has thrown
you out You are a wanderer. a man
without ties or home. That is why 1
claim you as my man. l want to show
you the way to revenge
You puzzle me-" Julien admitted You
| talk about revenge. 1 know you far too
we'll to believe that you would propose to
me any scheme which would involve the
raising even of my little finger against
the country which has turned me out
| Naturally, Herr Freudenberg agreed
on do me no less than justice, my dear
| Sir Julien. What l do hope that you have
| firmly fixed in your mind is that l. de-
! spite your hsifpenny papers. your novel
weird middle class, !, Carl Freudenberg,
maker OF toys. am the honest and sincere
! friend OF England. The work which !
| ask you to do for me would be as much
| In the interests of your country as Of
| my own. only when say your country, |
mean mean your country governed by the po-
! litical party in which / have faith and
| confidence. l tell you frankly that an
| England governed as she is at present is
country I loathe. II I raise my hand
against her-not in war, mind, but in
| diplomacy-if l strive to humble her to-
day, 1t is because I would cover if 1
could the political party who are In power
at this moment with disrepute and dis
credit Why should YOU yourself shrink
from aiding me in this task? They are
the party in whose ran s-high in whose
ranks. | might say-are those who stopped
with baseness, with deceit unmentionable.
to rid themselves of you. Therefore |
say strike Come with me ana YOU shall
help. And when the time comes, l think
can promise you that l can show YOU a
way back. way which You have never
guessed.