But as the official of the Embassy went on blinking at him steadily he felt constrained to add: "Allow me to observe that I have no means of action upon the police here."
The useful, hard-working, if obscure member of the Embassy had an air of being impressed by some newly- born thought.
"How long have you been employed by the Embassy here?" he asked.
How long have you been drawing pay from this Embassy?"
"I daresay you could have been legally a Marshal of France and a Member of Parliament in England - and then, indeed, you would have been of some use to our Embassy."
In silence they left the hotel and drove to the
Embassy, in silence the young man ushered his charge into the large, pleasant apartment on the ground floor of the
Embassy, where the ambassador was giving instructions to two of his secretaries.
You may be sure that no one connected with the Japanese Embassy here would be permitted for one single second to take part in any such illegal act.
In other words, I want to know whether those papers which were stolen from Fynes and poor Dicky found their way to the Japanese Embassy or into the hands of Prince Maiyo himself."
It was, in fact, the rector and all the dignitaries of the university, who were marching in procession in front of the embassy, and at that moment traversing the Place.
This crowd had been waiting since daybreak for three things: noonday, the embassy from Flanders, the mystery play.
His eminence is, at this moment, escorting the very honorable embassy of the Duke of Austria; which is detained, at present, listening to the harangue of monsieur the rector of the university, at the gate Baudets.
Divulge the secrets of thy
embassy To the proud orbs that twinkle - and so be To ev'ry heart a barrier and a ban Lest the stars totter in the guilt of man !"