27/32 "I shall telephone for Mr.Orden." For a moment he lost control of himself. "He is the youngest member of the Council. He knows nothing of our negotiations with Freistner. Surely I am the person with whom you should communicate ?" "It will be very late to-night," she reminded him, "and Mr.Orden is my personal friend--outside the Council." "And am I not ?" he asked fiercely. |