One of the mysterious craft had been taken away!
CHAPTER XXXI
THE KIEL CANAL
It was impossible to resist the conclusion suggested by the absence of the sixth submarine.
I was not the only person who had been authorized, or rather instructed, to carry out the design against the Baltic Fleet. My august employer had thought it better to have two strings to his bow.
Who, then, was the person by whom I had been anticipated?
To this question an answer suggested itself which I was tempted to reject, but which haunted me, and would not be dismissed.