“An Ambassador with a keen eye and ear who will miss nothing!” exclaimed Zoleka.
“What you must not do is to put anything down in writing,” her father warned.
“Then how am I to tell you what I have found out?”
“I think the wisest way would be to take a second aide-de-camp with you who we trust. He can always be sent backwards and forwards ostensibly with gifts and to fetch items for you, but really to tell me what you want me to know.”
Zoleka clasped her hands together.
“You are quite right, Papa, we should have thought of it before. If it is something very serious, I will come back myself, but if we take a special messenger, he will make me feel that I can reach you very quickly if I want to.”
“You are not to anticipate anything really nasty or untoward happening. If you do, it migh
