We've been going through hell, Hamel, and we are up against it now, hard up against it." The slight smile passed from the lips of Hamel's sunburnt, good-natured face.

He himself seemed to become infected with something of his companion's anxiety.
"There's nothing seriously wrong, is there, Reggie ?" he asked.
"Dick," said Kinsley, with a sigh, "I am afraid there is.

It's very seldom I talk as plainly as this to any, one but you are just the person one can unburden oneself to a little; and to tell you the truth, it's rather a relief.

As you say, these eighteen arrests in one week do mean something.

Half of the Englishmen who have been arrested are, to my certain knowledge, connected with our Secret Service, and they have been arrested, in many cases, where there are no fortifications worth speaking of within fifty miles, on one pretext or another.