CHAPTER XVI

GENIUS OR MADNESS? For a moment Wolfenden was speechless. Then, with a presence of mind which afterwards he marvelled at, he asked no more questions, but stepped up to the writing-table. "Blatherwick," he said hurriedly, "we seem to have made a bad mistake. Will you try and rearrange these papers exactly as the admiral left them, and do not let him know that any one has entered the room or seen them." Mr. Blatherwick commenced his task with trembling fingers. "I will do my best," he said nervously. "But I am not su…