CHAPTER XIDRAMA ON THE ROOF
Worrals possessed that peculiar faculty of being able to wake up at any desired time, and the following morning she was on the move while the stars were paling in the sky. She did not wake Frecks, but applied herself to a task that occupied her for some time. This was the writing of a condensed report on the situation for the benefit of Squadron-Leader Yorke. Using special light paper and a sharply pointed pencil, and employing no more words than were necessary, she managed to get in the main facts. After she had finished, she read it through carefully, knowing what the result would be if the despatch fell into enemy hands—a by no means impossible event, for military observers, knowing the purposes for which carrier pigeons are employed, shoot them whenever pos
