9/12 You follow me ?" "Perfectly," I assured him. "This is most interesting, although as yet it seems to me equally irrelevant." "Your War Office," the Prince continued, "has established a Secret Council of Defence, whose only task it is to plan the successful resistance to that invasion, if ever it should take place. You, Mr. You have to elaborate the digests of the meetings, to file schemes for the establishment of fortifications and camps; in a word, the result of these meetings passes through your hands. I will not beat about the bush, Mr.Ducaine.You can see that you have something in your keeping which, if passed on to me, would accomplish my whole aim. |