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"Do you mean that you were there under your own name?" he asked incredulously. She shook her head. "I secured some perfectly good testimonials before I left," she said. "They referred to a Miss Brown, the daughter of Prebendary Brown. I was Miss Brown." "Great Heavens!" Nigel muttered under his breath. "You heard about Atcheson?" She nodded. "Poor fellow, they got him all right.
"You believe that she is our enemy?" Nigel asked, with a look of trouble in his eyes. "She is Immelan's friend," Chalmers reminded him. "There was a man named Atcheson," Jesson began quietly Nigel nodded. "He was one of the men my uncle sent out. The first one was stabbed in Petrograd. Jim Atcheson was poisoned and died in Berlin."
"I rather wondered why they let me out," she observed. "Perhaps you can explain why Frau Essendorf keeps on writing to me under my pseudonym of 'Miss Brown' and to my reputed address in Lincolnshire, begging me to return." "I could tell you that, too," he replied. "They want you back in Berlin." "They really do know, then, that I brought over the dispatch from Atcheson?" she asked.
"Sidwell was one of those unnatural people, as you know," Lord Dorminster went on, "who never touched wine or spirits and who hated women. To continue. Atcheson was a friend of yours, wasn't he?" "Of course! He was at Eton with me. It was I who first brought him here to dine. Don't tell me that anything has happened to Jim Atcheson!"
In the center, however, the roads by way of which an American assault could be made, namely the Union Pacific at Granger, the Denver and Rio Grande at Grand Junction, and further south the Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fé, approached the Japanese positions at right angles, and at these points captive balloons and several air-ships kept constant watch toward the east, so that there was no possibility of an American surprise.
All the time the real dispatch, written by Atcheson when he was dying, was sewn into my corsets. How's that for an exciting situation?" "It's a man's job, anyhow," Nigel declared. She shrugged her shoulders and abandoned the personal side of the subject. "Have you been in Germany lately, Nigel?" she enquired. "Not for many years," he answered.
"There was rather a scare in a certain quarter about Atcheson," Jesson observed. "He was supposed to have got a report through to the late Lord Dorminster." "He got it through all right," Nigel replied. "My uncle was busy decoding it, seated in this room, at that table, when he died." "His death was very sudden," Jesson ventured.
The grass upon all the roads leaving Fort Smith is sufficiently advanced to afford sustenance to animals by the first of April, and from this time until winter sets in it is abundant. The next route on the north leaves the Missouri River at Westport, Leavenworth City, Atcheson, or from other towns above, between either of which points and St. Louis steamers ply during the entire summer season.
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