No word has been received from Wolff since that night in January.

On the other hand, indirect information has reached us that he is in durance over here." "But such a thing is against the law, unheard of," Dominey protested.
"No country can keep the citizen of another country in prison without formulating a definite charge or bringing him up for trial." Seaman smiled grimly.
"That's all very well in any ordinary case," he said.

"Wolff has been a marked man for years, though.

Wilhelmstrasse would soon make fuss enough, if it were of any use, but it would not be.

There are one or two Englishmen in German prisons at the present moment, concerning whose welfare the English Foreign Office has not even thought it worth while to enquire.