Maggie recognised it, and her heart beat faster.

Curiously enough, just then she scarcely thought of its world importance.

She remembered only those few moments of strange thrills, the wonder at finding him in that room, as he stood watching her, the horror and yet the thrill of his measured words.

He laid the papers upon the table.
"Read them," he invited.

"You will understand then the net that has been closing around your country.