17/23 He laid two or three sheets of paper upon the table and waited while his employer glanced them through and dismissed him with a little nod. "We seem to have collected about forty messages from different battleships and cruisers. There must be a whole squadron barely thirty miles out." "You don't really think," Lady Saxthorpe asked, "that there is any fear of war, do you, Mr.Fentolin ?" He answered her with a certain amount of gravity. "Who can tell? This conference at The Hague is still unexplained. |