CHAPTER IX
Weak Links“I’m awfully sorry, madam,” explained the clerk at the War Office, “but the Secretary of State for War is in a Cabinet meeting, and I can hardly summon him away from it for the sake of your — if I may say — very vague and mysterious warning. Perhaps you could leave a message with Sir Laming’s private secretary.”
“I hardly think so,” replied Goldstein, well aware that any note she left for him about vampires and soul-destroying vaccines would be thrown away as some ludicrous hoax without her personal testimony. “I need to see him urgently. This is a matter of national importance.”
“So you say, madam,” replied the clerk, discouragingly, “but I need a little more than your word on that before I disturb the Prime Minister and the entire Cabinet. If you’ve nothing concre
