CHAPTER 7Margot Cameron shivered.
"Is he on board?" she asked.
He laughed.
"No, no. They got me out of my bed about three to identify the gentleman and that meant going through about six hundred passports. Which annoyed me."
The girl laughed in sympathy.
"Have you many passengers?"
"We're full up," he said, "and if I hadn't got the passports I couldn't have given them any answer at all, I certainly shouldn't parade the passengers in the middle of the night. As it was I was able to say that the man they seek is not on board. If he has left England, which is unlikely, he could have gone on a dozen ships. Saturday is a great sailing day. Be sure, Miss Cameron," he said, "I'll let you have any radio that comes within half an hour of its arrival."
With that she had to be content. Church
