CHAPTER XVII 

Julian, on, the morning following his visit to the Prime Minister, was afflicted with a curious and persistent unrest. He travelled down to the Temple land found Miles Furley in a room hung with tobacco smoke and redolent of a late night. 

"Miles," Julian declared, as the two men shook hands, "I can't rest." 

"I am in the same fix," Furley admitted. "I sat here till four o'clock. Phineas Cross came around, and half-a-dozen of the others. I felt I must talk to them, I must keep on hammering it out. We're right, Julian. We must be right!" 

"It's a ghastly responsibility. I wonder what history will have to say." 

"That's the worst of it," Furley groaned. "They'll have a bird's-eye view of the whole affair, those people who write our requiem or our eulogy. You noticed the Press this morning? They're all hinting at some great move in the West. It's about in the clubs. Why, I even heard last night that we were in Ostend. It's all a rig, of course. Stenson wants to gain time." 

"Who opened these negotiations with Freistner?" Julian asked. 

"Fenn. He met him at the Geneva Conference, the year before the war. I met him, too, but I didn't see so much of him. He's a fine fellow, Julian--as unlike the typical German as any man you ever met." 

"He's honest, I suppose?" 

"As the day itself," was the confident reply. "He has been in prison twice, you know, for plain speaking. He is the one man in Germany who has fought the war, tooth and nail, from the start." 
Did Furley relate to Julian? What did he admit to him? Why? Since when? to who? How long has Miles been sitting there? Who came by? anyone else? Did he think it was wrong? What was he curious about? Who did he see that morning what kind of writing was he curious about Where are moves being made? When were they in Ostend? What did he hope Fenn was? Did they think he was? was he a felon? for what? What has he fought? from when?
Yes he can't rest he was afflicted with a curious and persistent unrest the morning following his visit the Prime Minister till four o'clock Phineas Cross half-a-dozen of the others No what history will say the Press requiem or eulogy the West last night honest Yes Yes for plain speaking the war from the start