But then, it was his business not to betray any such tenderness.
"If we could have in the future a little more information from London, it would save us a good deal of time," he said stonily.

"Sometimes a surname is hurled at us, and will we find him, please, and cable home all details ?" "Yes, that is very wrong," the Commodore agreed.

"We will have that changed." Then a bright idea appeared to occur to him.

His face lighted up.

"After all, in this instance the mistake hasn't done any real harm.
For we have got our friend Mario Escobar now, and without these tubes and this letter from Berlin about the use of them and Jose Medina's account of the conversation in the next room we shouldn't have got him.
The German governess wasn't enough.