Читать книгу The 'Phone Booth Mystery онлайн
1 страница из 46
John Ironside
The 'Phone Booth Mystery
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338064073
Table of Contents
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
ssss1
CHAPTER I LADY RAWSON
ssss1
“I’m extremely sorry, Carling. It’s too bad to keep you to-night, but——”
“That’s all right, sir. Lucky they came in to-night and not to-morrow. I shall soon be through with them.”
“It’s most awfully good of you,” rejoined Sir Robert Rawson heartily. “I would deal with them myself, but we are dining with Lord Warrington, as you know.”
“Yes, sir; but it’s of no consequence really. I can spare the time perfectly well.”
Already Carling’s sleek head was bent over the special dispatches which had just been delivered at the private residence of Sir Robert Rawson. There were two sets, written in different languages, but both referring to one subject—secret intelligence concerning the strained relations between two foreign countries: a matter that at present was suspected rather than known, but that might at any moment develop on serious lines, and even occasion a war involving Great Powers.