Chapter SevenCrossing the Channel, Lord Cheriton felt he had never suffered such anxiety and pain as he had endured thinking of Wivina.
He had realised, as soon as he learnt that Jeffrey Farlow had gone to France and that Wivina had disappeared, that he had taken her with him, and he knew they would have gone to Roscoff, where Tom Johnson had a house.
With the quickness and precision that was typical of his Army training, Lord Cheriton went back to the troops clustered round the stables where they were guarding the smugglers who had already been captured.
In a few seconds he had picked out fifteen of the men he thought most experienced and told them to mount their horses.
The rest, including those who were slightly wounded, were left to guard the prisoners, but he knew there was little
