CHAPTER SEVENLord Kenington stared over the Viceroy’s shoulder and, when he read what was written, he exclaimed,
“It cannot be possible! What have they done with her?”
“They have taken her away,” Major Warde replied. “They will lock her up, so that she will starve to death if I don’t do as they have demanded.”
“What can we do then?” the Viceroy now enquired. “You know as well as I do they will murder those four men when they know their names.”
There was no need to explain to Lord Kenington that everyone in The Great Game was known by a number. They never gave their real names to anyone when they were on a mission.
It was exceptional, as in the case of someone as important as Major Warde, for anyone to know who they actually were.
“How could this have happened in my garden?” the Vicer
