Chapter 56

Mr. Mappin neither accepted nor rejected the implied suggestion. “I don’t understand why King Constantine was obliged to fly from Kuban in 1914,” he said. “There were no popular upheavals as early as that. I suppose I read about it at the time, but I’ve forgotten.” The General was anxious to propitiate him now. “There was so much happening in the world then that the affairs of little Kuban passed unnoticed,” he said. “No news got out of the country at all. Kuban came in on the side of the Allies. King Constantine h…