CHAPTER THREEKelvin Ridge had arrived from India the previous day travelling incognito.
He had deliberately taken a Second Class cabin and stayed in it most of the time that they were at sea.
Immediately on his arrival in London he had gone straight to the War Office.
He was greeted with great respect and taken at once to see the Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the Army and he was told that Lord Granville, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was also waiting to see him.
The information he brought was of such importance that it had been considered wiser for him to come home in person than to send anything even by a secret code.
“You do realise, Ridge,” the Chief of Staff had said to him, “you are now a marked man and you will have to be very careful until we have rounded
