[The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lady of the Shroud BOOK VII: THE EMPIRE OF THE AIR 112/116
The old Voivode, his eyes blazing, rose and stood beside me and took the other.
The two old fighting-men of the land and the sea stood up and saluted. This was the beginning of what ultimately became "The National Committee of Defence and Development." I had other, and perhaps greater, plans for the future in my mind; but the time had not come for their utterance. To me it seems not only advisable, but necessary, that the utmost discretion be observed by all our little group, at all events for the present.
There seems to be some new uneasiness in the Blue Mountains. There are constant meetings of members of the Council, but no formal meeting of the Council, as such, since the last one at which I was present.
There is constant coming and going amongst the mountaineers, always in groups, small or large.
Teuta and I, who have been about very much on the aeroplane, have both noticed it.
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