We had a very good meal in the restaurant, and when we were finishing two officers entered.

Stumm got up and saluted and went aside to talk to them.
Then he came back and made me follow him to a waiting-room, where he told me to stay till he fetched me.

I noticed that he called a porter and had the door locked when he went out.
It was a chilly place with no fire, and I kicked my heels there for twenty minutes.

I was living by the hour now, and did not trouble to worry about this strange behaviour.

There was a volume of time-tables on a shelf, and I turned the pages idly till I struck a big railway map.