s, Rebener went directly to

Embankment? What did you say is the number of that officer? Oh, my old butler, Pat! That's all right. Now listen; if I should miss Smith and he comes in, tell him to call me at my hotel

morning, and approaching the officer who had interrupted the interview between Edestone and Smith, he said

I would gladly, but 'tis a strhanger I am here mesilf," he grinned as he smothered the en

ll get you into trouble yet. Did

s now. 4782, I think they called him, takes him up from there

has Smi

idge's, bein' shaved b

that joking of yours I'll certainl

n his face he raised his hand as if drinking. "Der Tag!" he cried, thereby causing sev

atest consideration by everybody about the place. He was shown to the royal suite by the proprie

s jest, "to meet me here at once. I do not want him seen in the hotel, so tell him to come in by the serva

to this, but was soon back, and R

t before I had a chance to invite him," he said, "bu

pecially-you know who-who will be incognito, must not be recognized. Not that there could be any objection to these men dining with me here-a common rich American, who loves to spend his mo

who came in very much excited. Sniffling and rubbing his nose with the bac

can do for her I am glad and proud to do, but that Hottenroth talks like a damn fool. Excuse me, Mr. Rebener, but he don't want to stop at anything. He says that if he pulls off this thing the Emperor, w

don for fifteen years. He was one of the very first to be sent here, and he was in Paris before that. He would die willingly for the Fatherland, as would I, and if this Schmidt, I mean Smith, thinks there is any sin too gre

th did not thoroughly agree with the philosophy of German milita

ted. Don't let us try to cross our bridges until we

-M type, with some slight changes, which Hottenroth said don't amount to anything, and some photographs of Mr. Edestone himself, doing some juggling tricks with heavy dumb-bells and

" demanded Bombiadi, "on

w up at their country place, in Yorkshire, and the Marquis went on to Aldershot last night after having dined with Edestone at Brook

u reported to us from America was always kept in the safe at t

Smith. "Mr. Edestone pr

" frowned the proprietor, "that is, if it has not been shown a

g to stand for any of that rough stuff, Mr. Rebener. Mr. Edestone and his father have both

to understand, Smith, that if we find it necessary to do away with Edestone you wish to go first? Yo

y' with Edestone, as you call it. What we're after is the invention and not the man himself, and we'll

the proprietor, "if thereby we are instrumental i

ry knows nothing, we must work to get him to Berlin, and then even you fire-eaters may safely trust it to the Wilhelmstrasse. If it should happen, however, that the British Government has the invention, His Royal Highness tonight will try to get enough out of Edestone to enlighten Berlin, and

ghness, but I am satisfied that he will say Edestone must not be allowed to go to Downing Street

r angrily, when he was interrupted by the propr

asive and servile tone of the ma?tre d'h?tel: "I propose, Mr. Rebener, that you allow me to send you up a nice little lunch, some melon, say, a salmo

th Underhill, so you get down to the Admiralty and report to me here as often as you can. Edestone will probably lunch quietly alone somewhere, as I know that all of his friends are

nyhow. But if he makes a false step, 4782 knows what to do and you can depend upon him to do it. We do

rear of the hotel. He was thoughtful, and when he was settled in his tax

n't got it already. I wish I'd never started this business; I never thought it would go so far, and what do I get out of it? A German decoration which I

looking out on Whitehall Place. The proprietor, who was another German, came over to him,

In that way he keeps the head of the line, you see, and when Edestone comes out, if he doesn't take that cab, 4782 can follow him unti

le, the jovial host in a loud voice and in perfect English took