Rizzio paused with a deep frown.
“Where is he? Why has he not reported? Could anything have happened to him? What were you thinking?”
“That Hammersley perhaps—but that could hardly be—since he always moved under cover——”
“Du lieber Jesu! Speak out! Will you?”
“I thought that Hammersley might have been the cause of his arrest.”
“Oh, you think that? Why?”
“Because it was Hammersley who told the War Office of Byfield——”
“What proof have you of that?”
“No one knew of Byfield’s connection with us but Hammersley, Maxwell and myself.”