CHAPER THREEAt Athens the Ambassador had gone ashore to visit his Embassy there and sign the visitor’s book at others.
When he came back to the Battleship, he waited until he was alone with the Earl before telling him that the current situation was becoming extremely worrying.
“Why particularly?” the Earl enquired.
They were sitting together on deck and as Tarena and the Count were playing deck tennis, there was no one to overhear them.
Even so the Ambassador lowered his voice as he began,
“The Russians are not only causing trouble outside their country especially in the Balkans, but they are having revolutionary difficulties of their own in St. Petersburg.”
The Earl raised his eyebrows.
“Well, they had the same problems under the last Czar, who they eventually destroyed.”
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