‘Well, what do you mean to do?’
‘I have accepted his offer.’
‘Ha!... I hope you made a good thing out of it?’
They both rose to their feet.
‘In what way, Mr. Cato?’
‘There was, I suppose, some commission attached to the negotiation?’
‘No, sir; there was no commission. Baron Blumenstrauss knew me better than to offer me any such thing.’
It was perfectly true. It would have been inapt. There were other ways in which the Baron could discharge his debt of gratitude to a young man with a great future.
‘Where is the Prince?’ said Huxtable.
‘What do you want with him?’