g through the windshield,
but no one believed that. Equally startled people saw the car screech to
a stop in front of the home of the Secretary of War. After it, scarcely
a full minute later, three motors with the Arvanian coat of arms on them
came to a halt.

"My dear fellow," said the Secretary blandly to the livid Arvanian
Ambassador, "no one has come in here with papers or anything else. I saw
a man jump out of your town car and run south on Connecticut Avenue.
That's all I know."

"But I tell you--" shrieked the Arvanian.

He stopped, impaled on the Secretary's icy cold glance.

"Your story is rather incredible," murmured the Secretary. "Valuable
plans stolen from your Embassy by an invisible man? Come, come!"

Dark Arvanian eyes glared into light American ones.

"By the way," said the Secretary affably, "I am thinking of giving a
semi-official banquet to celebrate future, friendly relations between
our two countries. Do you approve?"

The Arvanian Ambassador tugged at his collar to straighten it. World
dominion had been in his fingers--and had slipped through--but he would
not have been a diplomat had he let his face continue to express the
bitterness in his heart.

"I think such a banquet would be a splendid idea," he said suavely.

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