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"Do you consider that because a vast amount of useless information is naturally sent, that fact lessens the danger as a whole? If only one letter in a thousand contains vital information, isn't that sufficient to raise the subject to a more serious level?" Mr. Tyritt crossed his legs. His tone still indicated the slight tolerance of the man convinced beforehand of the soundness of his position.
But and this is a big 'but', Mr. Norgate in other directions so far as regards the country generally, that is to say we do not take the subject of German spies seriously. I may almost say that we have no anxiety concerning their capacity for mischief." "Those are the views of your department?" Norgate asked. "So far as I may be said to represent it, they are," Mr. Tyritt assented.
Norgate," he exclaimed, as he laid it down, "do you mean to seriously accuse these people of being engaged in any sort of league against us?" "Most certainly I do," Norgate insisted. "But the thing is ridiculous!" Mr. Tyritt declared. "There are names here of princes, of bankers, of society women, many of them wholly and entirely English, some of them household names.
"Such a visit as yours is an agreeable break in my routine work. I feel as though I might be a character in a great modern romance. The names of your amateur criminals are still tingling in my memory." Norgate turned back from the door. "Remember them, if you can, Mr. Tyritt," he advised, "You may have cause to, some day."
In about twenty minutes he was told that a Mr. Tyritt would see him, and was promptly shown into the presence of that gentleman. Mr. Tyritt was a burly and black-bearded person of something more than middle-age. He glanced down at Norgate's card in a somewhat puzzled manner and motioned him to a seat. "What can I do for you, sir?" he enquired.
You expect me to believe that these people are all linked together in what amounts to a conspiracy to further the cause of Germany at the expense of the country in which they live, to which they belong?" Norgate picked up his hat. "I expect you to believe nothing, Mr. Tyritt," he said drily. "Sorry I troubled you." "Not at all," Mr. Tyritt protested, the slight irritation passing from his manner.
"I brought it here to leave in your hands," Norgate replied, passing it over. "Your attitude, however, seems to render that course useless." Mr. Tyritt adjusted his eyeglasses and glanced benevolently at the document. A sharp ejaculation broke from his lips. As his eyes wandered downwards, his first expression of incredulity gave way to one of suppressed amusement. "Why, Mr.
"Dear me, that sounds very interesting!" He took up Norgate's card and glanced at it. The action was, in its way, significant. "You probably don't know who I am," Norgate continued. "I have been in the Diplomatic Service for eight years. Until a few days ago, I was attached to the Embassy in Berlin." Mr. Tyritt was somewhat impressed by the statement.
"I presume that if I make a few investigations on my own account, and bring you absolute proof that any one of these people whose names are upon my list are in traitorous communication with Germany, you will view the matter differently?" "Without a doubt," Mr. Tyritt promised. "Is that your list? Will you allow me to glance through it?"
Tyritt assented, smiling, "they are perfectly welcome to write home to their friends and relations each week and tell them everything they see happening about them, everything they know about us." Norgate rose reluctantly to his feet. "I won't trouble you any longer," he decided.
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