There is nothing for me to do there in his absence." "He will be back on Wednesday or Thursday night," was the confident reply.

"He will bring with him the plan of his latest defenses of a town on the east coast, which our cruiser squadron purpose to bombard.

We must have that chart." Lessingham listened in mute distress.
"Could you possibly get me relieved ?" he begged.

"The fact is--" "We could not, and we will not," Hayter interrupted fiercely.

"Unless you wish me to denounce you at home as a renegade and a coward, you will go through with the work which has been allotted to you.