But when a neutral under the cloak of his neutrality meddles in this stupendous conflict for cash, for his thirty miserable pieces of silver, he could feel no inclination of mercy.
"Let the neutrals keep out!" he murmured.

"This is not their affair.

Let them hold their tongues and go about their own business!" He received Fairbairn's letter in the beginning of the year 1916.

He was still no nearer at that date to the discovery of B.45; nor were they any better informed in London.

Hillyard could only wait upon Chance to slip a clue into his hand..