IN WHICH I SPEAK OUT The door was thrown open.

Lord Chelsford and Colonel Ray entered together.

The Commander-in-Chief accompanied them, and there was also present a person who sat a little apart from the others, and who, I learned afterwards, was a high official in the secret service.

More than ever, perhaps, I realized at that moment in the presence of these men the strangeness of the events which for a short space of time, at any rate, had brought me into association with persons and happenings of such importance.
Lord Chelsford seated himself at the open desk opposite to the Duke.

As was his custom, he wasted no time in preliminaries.
"We wish for a few minutes' conversation with you, Mr.Ducaine," he said, "on the subject of this recent leakage of news concerning our proceedings on the Council of Defence.