"
And Seymour Michael sat smiling quietly on Anna Agar's son.
CHAPTER XVI
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!
He is a wise liar who makes use of the truth at times. Seymour Michael
was clever enough to stay his fantastic tongue in his further explanation
to Arthur Agar.
"It is a long story," he said, "and in order to fully state the case to
you I must go into some matters of which perhaps you have heard little.
Do you happen to be anything of a politician? Are you, I mean, interested
in foreign affairs?"
Arthur confessed that he knew nothing of foreign affairs, a fact of which
Michael had become fully aware on entering the narrow-minded,
characteristic room.
"You perhaps know," Seymour Michael went on, in a tone of which the
sarcasm was lost upon its victim, "that Russia is living in hopes of some
day possessing India?"
"Oh--ah--yes!"
Arthur Agar was obviously not at all interested. There were so many
things of a similar nature to be remembered--things which did not really
interest him--and those nearer home had precedence in his mind.
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