Mrs. Van Groot beamed, as if she felt that the speaker was distinctly amusing.
She put her finger up to her lips like a child.
“I really don’t see why, if you want S. Peter’s cathedral in Rome, you shouldn’t get it if you can.
I have a lady friend who wants the Great Pyramid to decorate some new golf links her husband has made. She says it would make such an excellent bunker, and you may bet that she’ll get it if she can. I don’t see why there should be anything which money won’t buy.”
The stranger bowed to her; he in his turn appeared amused.
“Such are the natural sentiments of the wife of an American millionaire.
Alexander, and others, conquered the world with their armed cohorts so they came to own the earth. The billionaire proposes to do it with his billions. Who is he who is to
