"I have come to place my resignation in your hands." His face was expressive enough in its frowning contempt, but he said nothing for a moment, during which his eyes met mine mercilessly.
"So you find the work too hard, eh ?" he asked.
"The work is just what I should have chosen, your Grace," I answered.
"I like hard work, and I expected it.

The trouble is that I have succeeded no better than Lord Ronald." My words were evidently a shock to him.

He half opened his lips, but closed them again.

I saw the hand which he raised to his forehead shake.
"What do you mean, Ducaine?
Speak out, man." "The safe in the study has been opened during the night," I said.

"Our map of the secret fortifications on the Surrey downs and plans for a camp at Guilford have been examined." "How do you know this ?" "I tied the red tape round them in a peculiar way.