United States or Sierra Leone ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He agreed with us that both the Northern Harbor and Ostia were certain to be swarming with spies and secret-service agents and informers: so, for that matter, was the harbor-side of Rome along the Tiber: but Rome, being many times as large as Ostia, was likely to be proportionately easier to hide in. "That's where a small merchantman like mine," said he, "beats any big one.
He says he has always believed that you had nothing to do with Egnatius Capito's conspiracy, had merely been seen by some secret-service agent while talking to Capito, never were a member of his conspiracy, never conspired against Commodus, never were disloyal, have never been and are not any danger to our Prince, and therefore are a man to be shielded rather than informed on.
He may not have meant to murder Latimer, but it looks uncommon fishy." "It looks even fishier than you think," answered Tommy. "I'd forgotten for the moment, when you asked about him, but I remember now that some fellow at the Athenians once told me that Latimer was supposed to be a secret-service man of some kind." "A secret-service man!" I repeated incredulously.
"There surely will be others of the same breed, here before morning. They must not find us here!" "But Gabriel, how shall we escape?" asked Catherine, her face illumined by the leaping flames of the bungalow. "How! In their own machine! The machine that Slade and the Air Trust secret-service gave them, to come here and catch or murder us!" "By the Almighty! So we will!" cried Grantham.
And then "Little Mack" confided to Jack that the German code book had been captured with the U-boat, and that, furthermore, the U-91 had shipped as her wireless chief a former secret-service chap, Hal Bonte, who had worked for a time in the offices of a German-American steamship line in New York and knew the German language "like a breeze."
Are they so slow on the secret-service end?" "They have quite enough speed on that end," Harleston responded. "They are on the job always and ever also the Germans." "You've bumped into them?" "Frequently." "Ever encounter the clever lady, with the assortment of husbands?" "Once or twice.
Why, I know the whole country, half-a-dozen of the languages, oh, if I could get some secret-service work! Go I must. At worst I can turn my hand to doctoring Bashi-bazouks." "My dear Tom, when will you settle down like other men?" cries Claude. "I would now, if there was an opening at Whitbury, and low as life would be, I'd face it for my father's sake. But here I cannot stay."
"The fact that he was in the Intelligence Department in Berlin, and that he had been suddenly appointed military attaché at Brussels, made it plain that he was carrying out some important secret-service work in Belgium. On making inquiries I heard that he was constantly travelling in the country, and, speaking French so well, he was passing himself off as a Belgian.
French chauffeur, two Japanese servants, maids, and all." "The Stamford cottage?" repeated Gladys. "Why, that is where Mrs. Brainard lives." She gave a startled glance at Kennedy, as she suddenly seemed to realise that both he and the secret-service man had spoken about her friend. "Yes," said Burke, noting on the instant the perfect innocence of her concern. "What do you know about Mrs. Brainard?
Thank you, Mr. Glenister," he said to himself. Helen questioned Struve at length, but gained nothing more than that secret-service men had been at work for weeks and had to-day unearthed the fact that Vigilantes had been formed. They had heard enough to make them think the mines would be jumped again to- night, and so had given the alarm. "Have you hired spies?" she asked, incredulously. "Sure.
Word Of The Day