23/28 None of the objections were raised, however, by Commodore Graham. It was his business to keep men like Hillyard who were serving him well to their own considerable cost, in a good humour. Remorse was the line, not argument. "It's my fault! There's nothing else to be said. I am to blame about it." Martin Hillyard began to feel some compunction that he had ever suggested a fault in the composition of the telegram. |