"We do not stop at Turin to-night." He shut the door and went out, and the sound of closing doors came down the corridor as he made the same announcement to each compartment.
There were no passengers to descend at Turin, then, reflected Percy; and no doubt a wireless message had been received that there were none to come on board either.

That was good news: it would give him more time in London.

It might even enable Cardinal Steinmann to catch an earlier volor from Paris to Berlin; but he was not sure bow they ran.

It was a pity that the German had not been able to catch the thirteen o'clock from Rome to Berlin direct.

So he calculated, in a kind of superficial insensibility.
He stood up presently to stretch himself.