"You will give him something to remember, this time, eh?"
"I certainly will."
"I suppose it was imperative that you should be lenient with him that other time, Sir?"
"I regarded it so-yes. You see, Mr. Carter, it wouldhave been a very easy matter to have affronted his country through him. It would have been the move of Japan to repudiate any association with his aims or connectionwith him. His activities would have been attributed tothe opposing political part in Japan, and the government would have disclaimed any knowledge of Mustushimi's acts, and probably rightly too."
"In which Japan has borrowed another spoke from the wheel of the effete West; eh?"
The President laughed heartily.
"Even so, Mr. Carter. We have always had agitators in this country, whose activities we have repudiated---but with reason."
"You have not told me yet, Mr. President, exactly what it is you desire me to do."
"Mr. Carter, I wish you to serve your country more than me, in this matter. You can serve it best by keeping from it all knowledge of this matter. We managed to keep the other affair a secret, and I am in hopes we can do the same with this one."
"Well, Sir?"