"Cheques. There is nothing simpler and, except cash, nothing so easily
understood. To keep my hand in I will write one now."
Then Jones too got up. Paliser, to whom solitude was always irksome,
found himself alone. But his solitude was not prolonged. A man joined
him. Another followed. Presently there was a group.
From the table where Jones had gone, the inkbeast saw and seeing
thought: Empires may totter, nations fall. The face of the earth will be
changed. But the toady endureth forever.