Moreover, any of the marauders who have entered the Blue Mountains, from sea or otherwise, shall never get out by sea! I take it that we of my contingent shall cover the attacking party.

It will be a sorry time for us all if that happens without our seeing you and the Voivodin; for in such case we shall understand the worst!" Iron as he was, the man trembled.
"That is so, Rooke," I said.

"We are taking a desperate chance, we know.
But the case is desperate! But we all have our duty to do, whatever happens.

Ours and yours is stern; but when we have done it, the result will be that life will be easier for others--for those that are left." Before he left, I asked him to send up to me three suits of the Masterman bullet-proof clothes of which we had a supply on the yacht.
"Two are for the Voivodin and myself," I said; "the third is for the Voivode to put on.

The Voivodin will take it with her when she descends from the aeroplane into the Tower." Whilst any daylight was left I went out to survey the ground.