11“Heilemann,” said Tommy Hambledon, “I think you’d better go to London and tell them about this; it’s either a trap or very important. I smell a trap, I can’t see von Bodenheim letting out a thing like that accidentally, and yet—and yet—to lecture somebody about being careless and immediately do something damn silly yourself is exactly the kind of thing that happens. If you’d ever been a schoolmaster you’d know. Besides, I thought the Hindenburg Line story was a trap and it wasn’t; we missed that and it was my fault. If Reck had sent it out the night before it might have got through. However, it’s no good crying over unspilt beans.”
“When shall I go,” asked Bill, “tomorrow? I must see von Bodenheim before I start.”
Hambledon took a turn or two up and down the office.
“No,” he said at l
