Have I said enough ?" "You have said as much as it is wise for you to say," Lessingham replied, his voice trembling with suppressed passion.
"That is all, then," the other concluded.

"You know where to send or bring the chart when you have it?
If you bring it yourself, it is possible that something which you may regard as a reward, will be offered to you." Lessingham rose a little wearily to his feet.

His farewell to Hayter was cold and lifeless.
He left the hotel and started on his homeward way, struggling with a sense of intolerable depression.

The streets through which he passed were sombre and unlit.
A Zeppelin warning, a few hours before, had driven the people to their homes.

There was not a chink of light to be seen anywhere.