Chapter Forty-Seven
Fitzhugh stood next to Sir Neville Chamberlain outside the offices of Augustine Birdell, chief secretary to Ireland. Both had been told to wait, while Birdell went over their report with his under-secretary, Sir Nathan Matthews.
Returning from the wilds of Liverpool, Fitzhugh had received some thirty-five messages from his men in France about what they had uncovered. As he was working his way through these, a new and urgent wire was handed to him, fresh from the Western Front. The information this contained tied into what he had already learned, and he immediately called everyone he knew to get an interview with the one man who would understand its significance and be in a position to help. The three men then got on a train, then another train, and then a boat, follow
