The Kingdom of the Blind

bre-looking house in Adelphi Terrace. He passed through the open doorway, up two flights of stairs, drew a key of somewhat peculiar shape from his pocket and opened a door in front of him.

Belgian Frontiers stood upon an easel. The only occupant of the apartment was a man who was sitting before a typewriter in front of the window. He turned his head a

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he unlocked one of the safes and drew out from an inner drawer a parchment book bound in brown vellum. He spread out t

neighbourhood of La Guir. Please do your best for us, th

pencil and the code-book. When he had finished, he stu

communicated. Attack foile

sir?" the young man a

the transcription, and watched the fragments of paper burn into ashes. Then he replaced the code-book in the safe, wh

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moment in grave silence. Ambrose leane

ugh Dover Station, out of Charing-Cross, through our own men a

ulsively. His teeth had come

rose," he said hoarsely. "I know it seems li

it?" Ambr

ers were court-martialled for espionage. The French have been on the lookout for that sort of thing. We haven't. There isn't one of these men who are sitting in judgm

rose murmured, "but

ions, our most secret and sudden change of tactics. We've suffered enough, Ambrose, in this country from civil spies-the Government are to blame for that. But there are plenty of people who go blustering about, declaring tha

brose muttered,

would be as well-just for a week, say-to test a few of my reports, and they'd laugh at you with the air of superior beings listening to the chatter of a fool. Yet what is there impossible about it? I may have some sec

spring light falling full upon his face, with its nervous lines and strongly-cut, immobile features. H

f lunacy, and I might be quite reasonably the master-spy of the world. I was in Berlin si

d said nothing," Ambr

eemed to be considering the idea with s

here will be unwritten chapters, more dramatic, having really more direct effect upon the final issue than even the great bat

ter of an hour he reappeared, dressed in uniform. His tone, his bearing, his whole manner were chang

he announced, "to inspect some new patterns of camp bedsteads. You can tell the

ugh in sympathetic deference to his superior officer. H

y. "I'll do my best to finish the