Chapter SixDrogo stood in the bow watching the phosphorescence on the water as The Thistle steamed across the Black Sea.
Tonight they would be passing through the Bosporus and he wondered if he was making a mistake in not begging Captain McKay to stop at Constantinople.
He was well aware that there was a submarine cable that the British had used for some years.
It ran across Europe to Constantinople and then through Turkey to the Persian Gulf and on to India.
It had, however, never been very efficient because of the unreliability of the Turkish section.
What Drogo was afraid of was that the secret communications he would send to the Viceroy and to the Earl of Rosebery might be intercepted by the Russians.
On the other hand at Alexandria there was the new submarine cable that had been
