Diplomat's Folly

Aylwin Hundrych is a diplomat with political aspirations, who was once involved with a French girl, Antoinette, with whom he unwittingly shared details about a royal visit to Paris - details which put the King''s life in danger. Antoinette''s brother holds the former lovers'' letters, and is threatening to use them. Hundrych makes a first payment, but the demands continue.

Hundrych enlists his old ...