Rosa, however, had been intelligent enough to make friends with one or two powerful Germans in Spain; and they pleaded for her with this much success.

She was given another three months within which period she must really do something to justify her salary.

So much Martin Hillyard already knew; he learnt now that Jose Medina had provided the great opportunity.

To snatch him with his two hundred motor feluccas and his eighteen thousand men from the English--here was something really worth doing.
"What beats me," said Hillyard, "is why they didn't try to get at you before." "They didn't," said Medina.
Rosa, it seemed, used the argument which is generally sound; that the old and simple tricks are the tricks which win.

She discovered the hotel at which Jose Medina stayed in Madrid, and having discovered it she went to stay there herself.