The Earl was investigating what was happening in the Balkans. And it was doubtless on behalf of the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
‘Why could he not trust us,’ Orlina asked herself, but she knew that he would have been wrong to do so.
She had talked about these matters with her father and she had also read about them for long enough to know that any investigations were undertaken in utmost secrecy.
Perhaps the Earl intended to send a report home to England of what was occurring here. If so, only the Chief of the General Staff and the Prime Minister would know what he was about.
‘I have to save him – I have to,’ Orlina told herself.
To her relief Wilkins was back in a very short time.
He had a woollen shawl over his arm and carried in his hand a coloure
