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A BLANK OUTLOOK VOLNA appealed to me. “What shall I do?” “Let us get away if we can,” I said. “Come then. We can leave the house by the garden. But suppose they do not seek me?” “We can’t risk waitin…
POLICE METHODS WE dallied with the question and I thought he was going to repudiate my suggestion; but after a slight pause his manner became official. “If you recognize me, there is no reason for fu…
SPY WORK IT is never pleasant to have to admit even in the secrecy of one’s own private thoughts that one has been fooled; nor does the cleverness of the fooler afford any but the coldest consolation…
BLACK MONDAY IN WARSAW “I WAS almost afraid I shouldn’t catch you up,” said Burski. “I thought you couldn’t get away?” I growled. “Oh, I managed it all right. I thought it would be a pity for you to…
NO. 17, THE PLACE OF ST. JOHN WE stood silent for perhaps a minute and I strained my ears for the sound of voices in the rooms near. Not so much as a whisper was to be heard. Presently the stairs cre…
THE TABLES TURNED THE tables were turned now, and as the mob howled and clamoured and hammered at the door, a braver man than Bremenhof might well have lost his nerve. He was pale, and trembled, part…
THE PLAN PROSPERS IF Bremenhof had been less of a coward such a plan as ours would have been absolutely impossible. But the sight of the mob’s fury had so saturated him with fear that it bereft him o…
FLIGHT THE meeting with the troops proved to be an invaluable incident. There had been a tense moment when the question whether Bremenhof would attempt treachery still hung in the balance. A moment m…
IN THE STREET OF ST. GREGORY THE luck seemed to be dead against us. Volna could scarcely put her foot to the ground and, although she struggled gamely to continue the flight, Ladislas and I were all …
AFTER THE STORM THE death of Colonel Bremenhof caused a profound sensation; and the most varied and contradictory reports were circulated about it. The authorities branded it assassination, and threa…
