None of the others could take all the party which Rupert wanted to go.

When he heard that the aero was coming from Whitby, where it was sent from Leeds, he directed by cable that it should be unshipped at Otranto, whence he took it here all by himself.

I wanted to come with him, but he thought it better not.

He says that Brindisi is too busy a place to keep anything quiet--if not secret--and he wants to be very dark indeed about this, as it is worked by the new radium engine.

Ever since they found radium in our own hills he has been obsessed by the idea of an aerial navy for our protection.