His feluccas fly the British flag and his factories are on French soil.

There would be an end of Jose Medina." The letters were put in front of Hillyard.

He read them over carefully, and at the end he said: "If Pontiana Tabor lied in this case of the Consulate--and that seems clear--it is very likely that he lied also in the other.

Yes." As a matter of fact, Hillyard had reasons of his own to doubt the truth of the story which ascribed to Medina the actual provisioning of a submarine--reasons which had nothing whatever to do with Jose Medina himself.
The destruction of shipping by German submarines in this western section of the Mediterranean had an intermittent regularity.

There would be ten successive days--hardly ever more than ten days--during which ships were sunk.