o the

they had really gone, and then he stole with catlike tread ove

osing the door gently behind him, he switched on the electric light

rned, Anton?" she

lied. "We leave this house to-morrow, as soon as th

hands. "I, for one, shall be delig

t, Ottilie?" inq

detestable little pig-dog, Billy, before I go. Ach,

uption, and there is much to be arranged. You will stay in London; I shall cross over to-morrow night from the usual place, for my info

ng over his shoulder read the words he wrote down rapidly

time has not been wasted after all, then. Our people kne

nt of joining the Army. They were just the very people likely to talk, to say nothing of that greatest fool of all, Uncle Staff Captain, who told me a great deal when he dined here on Wednesday. Ottilie, these English are lunatics, and it is not for n

lies in the German nature to bestow upon anyone outside it

y in Shaftesbury Avenue. I need not tell you where you will really go. But tell them that word

a train that will ge

ll borrow Dennis Dashwood's motor-bike ten minutes after their car has left for Charing Cross. I shall

had been carried to the car. "Well, time's up. Au revoir, mon lieutenant. I must air my bad French, you know," and he shook hands warmly with the "Be

han you think," said Van Drissel with a quie

g her handkerchief. Now they were gone, and as the three little girls fil

matters if you leave it

is not supposed to have be

t the engine. Then when I have gone, walk quietly out

ss than half an hour she knew she would have parted with her boys, perhaps for the last time, but she kept a brave face as Bob

people as usual, for nearly

orm, where the long train was waiting. Three men of the Lincolns, loaded with packs a

rthamptons, going out for the first time, stood with three ladies, keeping his end up very well. Three lieutenants going back from short leave, and lucky

hey reached it, and read the name "Clementina, seats 1-19," and when their clo

ue-grey uniform, with black belts and gaiters, gave a touch of unusual colour as they passed backwards and forwards through the groups. One of them

purple face, and the three Lincolns, who had been turned out of a s

d the tickets, and everyone drew a

now," said Bob, gla

n his corner in the dining-car, but almost e

saying: "Time is up, gentlemen. Please take your seats," and the

a little note himself. That was all, and almost imperceptibly the boat-train glided away, with here and there a wave of a khaki arm, a

Dashwood, as the parlourmaid handed

ou as soon as you arrived, ma'am," sai

ritten in scornful mood. "We shall not trouble you any further, as we have learned all

e Van D

atitude!" exclaimed Mrs. Dash

urred the Channel,

suddenly round and challenged, rather surprised to see by the scarlet band that t

ok so flurried," said the "brass hat." "D

in this drizzle. But I'll tell you what happened last

ve been sent down to investi

going on," said the sentry, "though

r, with his hands behind the back of his drab mackintosh, pr

ked volubly, not heeding the melancho

o-night," said the staff officer. "I se

lad. "They took the others away fr

d the moment his fingers closed round the rifle the boy dropped sense

e rifle down and gathering up the skirts of his

sing and falling on the top of the tide, and in another moment the me

arter of a mile out, and as the beam of a searchlight suddenly flashed through the mist, the top of the

inquired the commander as th

fer," laughed the spy. "How soon can

," replied the commander of the U50, with a strange glitt

my affair," s

nder haughtily. "In less than an ho

ol and clapping it to his head. "In an hour I must be in France. The news I carry is worth t