Their aim is to get the details without any one of us knowing, so that Royer will go back to Paris in the belief that the whole business is still deadly secret.

If they can't do that they fail, for, once we suspect, they know that the whole thing must be altered.' 'Then we must stick by the Frenchman's side till he is home again,' I said.

'If they thought they could get the information in Paris they would try there.

It means that they have some deep scheme on foot in London which they reckon is going to win out.' 'Royer dines with my Chief, and then comes to my house where four people will see him--Whittaker from the Admiralty, myself, Sir Arthur Drew, and General Winstanley.

The First Lord is ill, and has gone to Sheringham.