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"NO, I don't think they will," Philip smiled. "In fact, I know they won't. I made it my business to go to the Foreign Office, where I saw two of the big, brass hats, both of whom treated me with scant ceremony. I told them what we had found and I intimated pretty plainly that it must be part of a fund that had been entrusted to Colonel Heaton for Secret Service purposes. They declined all knowledge of any Colonel Heaton, indeed, they declined all knowledge of any kind. They told me that they had nothing to do with the money in the safe, and gave me a pretty broad hint that they didn't care what became of it. One of these mandarins went so far as to congratulate Colonel Heaton's daughter on the fact that she was the mistress of £20,000. And that is absolutely a fact, Molly. If you were to take that money in your two hands and offer it to the people at the Foreign Office, they wouldn't look at it. They would either give you in charge or hand you over to the police as a wandering lunatic."
Molly turned her eyes upon her companion with undisguised amazement. She was trying to grasp something which, for the time being, was utterly beyond her comprehension.