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THE UVorunavw a vou - - AAS m-- "So you frequent nigh: clubs, do you, Miss Brown?" Dessiter inquir- ed suddenly, turning around from dls desk after a somewhat good-morning. "P've mever visited one before," was the apologetic reply. "Hope you enjoyed it," ke grunt- ed. "1 see your name was iaken-- address, Shepherd's Market." "Ought I to have given a wrong address? I'm sorry. I've had no ex- perience." "It's just as well that while you're engaged upon this sort of work your name is out of the newspapers as much as possilje. However, you were with my dear young friend, 1 see, which counts for something." "He had an engagement there, as a dancer," Miss Brown confided. "it was he who inviteq my friend and me." "The matter of your presence there is of no particular consequen= ce," Dessiter said, aware of a sas- picious dimness in Migs Brown's blue eyes. "The nuisance is that I could have given you a tip to stay away if I had known about it." "I wonder," Miss Brown mused, "how you got Bretkopt there?" Dessiter finished the letter which he had been writing, rose to his feet and strolled across tha room. He sat on the corner of Miss Brown's tahle--an attitude which was becoming a habit of his. "Are you insinuating that XYO had anything to do witn this raid?" "I think that you planned it" Miss Brown replied. "You see, I sent that telephone messaga to Scotland Yard." "I had forgotten that! he ad- mitted. 'As for getting Bretskof there, it was a chance, of course, We sent cards of invitation in the manager's name, and Mademoiselle Lola earned fifty pounds by insist- ing upon wine. We scarcely dared hope for the brawl; though, That was an amazing stroke of luck, Dy the bye, wasn't there same trouble between Bretskopf and Paul?" Miss Brown nodded, '"Bretskopf tried to engage Mr. Paul to danee with his young lady friend," she confided. "I think he did it with the idea of humiliatiny him. Mr. Paul refused and the manager dismissed him." Dessiter frowned, 'Quite right, too," he pronounc- ed. "The most difficulc lad In the world, that, Miss Brown. I was In- dehted hefore the war to his peo- ple for a great deal of hospitality and kindness, but do you think that they will accept help from me now? Not one penny. l've offered ft in the most delicate manner I can think of time after time. All that I can get out of your young friend is that he'll come to me if he's really hard up against it, Does he want to marry eitner of you two?" Miss Brown was surprised at the sudden searching gaze he bent upop per. She felt hér eyes caugnt ana eld, realized, as she had done be- fore, the impossibility of telling a lie to this man, "My friend and he get on very well," she said. "I believe Mr, Panl is very fond of her. I think she is fond of him, but then they have- n't seen a great deal of one anoth- er yet." Dessiter had the air.of a man who has discovered al! that he wanted to know. He went back to his desk, lit a cigarette and began a lazy perambulation of the room, 'A messenger arrived wiih some re- ports--two from the War Office and one from Scotland Yard. He glanced them through, initialed them and handed them to Miss Brown to file, "A vein of weakness In this, 1 puppose," he began slowly, 'of ad- vancipg age apd ineptitude, Lately, Miss Brown, for the first time in my life, I have felt, I will not say the need of, but the desire of a confi- dante. Accidentally you know al- ready more than any one else of the Internal affairs here, except for our XYO friend at Scotland Yard and Nicholson at the War Office. Bome of these affairs we are engaged upon may seem to vou 2 little trivial. I will teil you the great object of all our work now and for the last week, We want to detach the respectables a far as possible from foreign influence. "Last night's incident was only one of several. At every epportunity we are doing our best to discredit these fellows. There is nothing puts up the back of the workingman more than to have it proved to him that thoge who are supposed to be leaders and friends are playing the fool in serious times, like Bret- skopf last night, I hear, by the bye, that Bretskopf, or the leader of what they call the Action Commit- tee, has offered secretly 10,000 pounds for distribution among the of last night's business. "That won't make any differen- ce?" Miss Brown asked anxiously, Dessiter smiled. "What do you think? There's no influence in the world can change the tope of a single paragraph in any paper. Tonight Bretskopf"s enisode will appear in great head- lines." "Supposing you succeed," Stic Brown asked--"'supposing these en- woys are discredited--do you think that the trouble will pass over?" "I do," Dessiter assured Ler. "I have come to the conclusion--and today I think I know more about jt tham any other man alive--that with all the blood and thunder talk in the parks, and these meetings throughout the whole country, des- pite these frothy-moutied 'leaders,' there fis no revolutiopary gpirit im this country." ? curt |. | Ser, Malakofr, press to make as light as possible | » 'he private telephone rang. Miss Brown received a cryptiq message and passed the receiver to her chief. "From Downing street," she an- nounced. Dessiter listened for a moment and spoke almost in monosyllables. #'Miss Brown," he said, "you un- dertsand, 1 know, after our conver- ation, that I have every confidence ! and a great deal of interest." "I am very proud .to think so, Colonel Dessiter," Miss Brown ad- mitted. "I want you now, therefore," he went on kindly, "not to be hurt but to put on your hat ang coat--very nice new hat and coat by the bye-- and hurry out. Go anywhera you like for an hour, and !f you meet any one whom you racognize om your way here, forget them." Miss Brown struggled inte her coat after a regretful glance toward her typewriter, "There's a great deal of work to be done," she observed. "Plenty of time later on," Des- siter assured her. "Ona hour, mind. Why not go for a walk? You look a little pale." Miss Brown took her leave and descended the stairs toward the lift, very demure, very quiet and unobtrusive. As she reached It, however, with her finger upon the bell, it swung up into its place and she was conscious of threa :iem stepping out. She stood on one glde, dropping her eyes at onca as she noticed their curious glances, She recognized all three and went on her way with a littl: smile of reflected glory, Miss Brown walked upon the m= bankment, watched the sea gulls hovering over the gray water and scavenging in the gutters hy her side for food, No rain was falling, but the air was damp and cold and there were signs of fog aver the city. After a brief progress east- walked the other way, passed Scot- land Yard, looked up towaré Down- ing Street and paused for some time to gaze at the Houses of Par- liament, The inner forces of lifa to which one pays no attention in one's day- by-day existence, and which Miss Brown studiously ignored, seemed suddenly wonderful things "here was a hranch of XYO ja one of the rooms of that puilding to her right. She envisaged it all. She herself was developing a miniature replica; files of reports from every one of the great industrial centers, the names of the possible strike 'ead- ers, cuttings of speeches from the local papers, an account of the men themselves, their real aims and character, There was a list on the other side, too--a blacklist. of employers, a growing compendium of informa- tion whieh no one had ever trouh- led to eolleet hefore, 'Then there was the foreign hranch with its phantasmagoria of unending de tail punctuated by blood-curdling, coldly dramatic records of uncurdl- ing, dramatic record of unbeliey- able happenings, With a human little thrill, so strangely nut of ac- cord with the gray mistiness of her surrounding, she remembered those passionate hours when she had sat at the table and taken down into quaint and secret gpymbols the story of what might have heen Des- siter's dying revelations. There was the sketch of Malakoff--how well she remembered it--Malakoff, etrip- ped naked, the man, his cunning vi- ciousness, his sinister malignity, There was the analysis of Bret- skopf too--not pleasant reading. Some of it had heen broadcast with- in the last few days--far-sceing pre- paration for what was to come, There was the story of China--a closed chapter now--the story of the moment when the whole fer- ment of plack fury and evil intent had been focused from that crime- drenched city in Russia upon Eng- land; stories of gecret shipments of arms; of great stores of food bought in different capitals, shipped in dif- ferent manners, to different ware- houses, cases of inflammatory pamphlets to be translated, copied and duplicated until they lay like poisonous put phantom fungi upon' the land. ! And behind all these revelations: the figure of the man who had de-, fied the secret services of the world. and passed from capital to capital with an ever-increasing price upon his head, a man unrecognized am- ong the great leaders of the cause for which he toiled, but a man whose name spelled terror to those who welded their thunderbolt in the caverns of the underneath world. LI BE J Miss Brown bought a newspaper, and, notwithstanding the eold, sat down upon the edge of a moisture. beaded seat wlile she read. RAID IN NIGHT CLUB 4 Bretskopf and Krasset Fined for Drinking With Wo- men After Hours ! Miss Brown, after her return to; Whitehall, found the conference over and Dessiter himself absent. The pile of work by the side of her desk, however, had increased am- azingly, and she start:q at once. With a keen sensation of pleasure she realized as she klanced through some of the letters ta which she was to reply how completely she was trusted. At 1 o'clock Mergen ap- peared from somewhere in those mysterious premises beyond and brought her some luncheon uvon a tray. A "Colonel Dessiter thought you probably wouldn't go out, madam," he said. "So we've donz the best we could for you." With an omelette, some cold meat, rolls and putter, some baked apples and half a bottle of claret, as compared with the pun and cup of coffee which Miss Brown had been contemplating, she found her self accepting the situation with equanimity. "Do you know at what time Col onel Dessiter is expected back?" she inquired. | "He was mot able to -~ay him- self, madam," the man replied. y Miss Brown lunched moderately and with discretion, yet with a: healthy appetite. When she had finished, she recommenced her work. She was disturbed by neith- er visitors nor telephona "ealls. Tos ward § o'clock Mdrgen brought her in some tea and a plate of hot toast,' at neither of which she glanced. He lingered for a moment. i "It you will pardon the liberty, madam," he ventured, "your type- writer has been going since half- past 1, and it is now 65 o'clock. Might I suggest that you have your tea over here by the fire and rest for a time?" Miss Brown was suddenly aware that she was tired, physically weary, yet mentally stimulated by the con- tinual reminders in her work of this. amazing worlq into which she . had plunged. She accepted Mer- gen's suggestion with a little gee- ture of relief, sipped her tea and munched her toast, curied up in an easy-chair near the fire, A pleasant and most insidious drowsiness poss- essed her. There was something which seemed like a mist before her eyes, a pleasant gliding away of the senses---rest, She sat up with a start She was conscious of the queerest, most nn- familiar sensation in tha world, her heart was beating fast, the blood racing through her veins 4s though to some strange sort of music, A few feet away from her. in the darkened room, standing hefore the fire with his hands hchind his back, was Dessiter. "Heavens, have I heen asleep?" Miss Brown exclaimed, terrified. "It would appear so," was the non-committal reply, Again there was that urge of strange feeling. She was puzzled, half contrite, halt hewildered, "How long have you been here?" she asked, rising to her feet, 'Some five or ten mninutles." "I am really very sorry," ehe con- fessed, "I worked withous stoping all the afternoon, and I thought I'd have my tea hy the five. I never sleep in the daytime, I can't think what happened to me." "In any case," he said, you have done a very excellent day's work al- ready, I have been laoklng tliro- ugh some of it, T congratulate you. Your typing is singuiarly clear. I fail to find a single error Your letters, too, expresg exactiy what I intended to convey," Miss Brown turned on the light and looked across at hiin gratefully, "It is very pleasant to hear you say so," "As a matter of fact," he ohserv- ed, making his way toward the In- evitable cigarette box, I can't think how I managed hefore you came. They used to send me up special young men from one of tha depart- ments, but none of my work was ever done so quickly or so well," Miss Brown felt extracrdiprarily light-hearted, Apart from the joy of his praise, there wae something else--a little singing still in the blood, a quivering of the senses for which she could not account. The wildest ideas found their furtive way into her mind, She had had a dream---of course it had been a dream. She glanced up apd looked half inquiringly a- cross the room. Dessiter nad re- sumed hig place upon the hearth- rug, and their eyes met. His long, oval face seemed to gleam whiter than ever through the shadows, but his eyes had lost their staely ex- pression. Suddeply he nodded thoughtfully as though in reply to Miss Brown's unspoken gynestion. "Yee, I did," he confessed, J hope you're pot angry." To Be Continued Tomorrow BANFF--LAKE LOUISE AND THE CANADIAN ROCKIES ---- A region which vacationist. If that region has good hotel accommodation and every facility for vacation enjoyment then greater becomes the appeal, For the person better choice could be made than that of Banff and Lake Louise in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. There one can enjoy the finest of golf, tennis, horseback riding, mountain climbing--and how #€x- hilarating, the warm pools after- ward. ' Your stay at the world renown- ed Banff Springs Hotel or Chatea Lake Louise will be a delight lon remembered. ! 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