The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-24


II want you to go and live in Blooms
bury for a little while" Sir Edward said
I looked up in surprise.
bloomsbury" [ echoed. Can that
dull, but emfnently II ~pscta e neighbor-
hood require my attentio can imagine
discomfort seething in rank at
mosphere of Soho, or riots fecting the
fate Of nations beina oEcocted in Pail
Mali, but l should have thought the
Bloomsbury air would have been fatal
to any excess of Imagination
You are severe the chief said smil-
ing Have you forgotten all the celebri-
ties whom Bloomsbury can claim?
Though acknowledge they may have be-
come famous in spite of their surround
ings, hot because of them. However, it
is just on account of its well known re-
spectaaihty-not to say commonplaceness
that / wish you TO go there. You are
less likely to be suspected"
I waited for further information.
The truth is" the chief continued,
speaking in lower tone, and with
hesitation quite foreign to his usual
manner, Il have an uncomfortable feel
ing that I am being watched. Even
here 7 do not feel quite safe" [ looked
at him in establishment
Surely I said, you can have no rea-
son TO suspect treachery in any of your
own immediate staff? I have heard you
say that they have all been well tried
before they come to you because so much
depends on their faith and honor"
THAT is all true enough, he returned,
land [ have never had reason to feel
uneasy before, or to doubt the wisdom
/ of my system. ! have no real ground to
do so now, as far as 1 know, but one
or two things have occurred-only trifles
as Yet. but a spark may come from
I great fire-which have made me uncom-
1 Portable and suspicious. l can discover
nothing, and what has happened is ca
( pable Of a legitimate explanation, there
fore I do not wish to attach undue i'm
/ portance to it, or to let anyone else see
that my attention has been aroused At
the same time 1 do not intend to run any
risks SO, as L am shortly expecting
an agent from abroad to bring me some
important plans and sketches, I wish
You to act as go-between.
You can take apartments in a quiet,
respectable street near the British mu-
scum, ostensibly for the purpose of FREE
quenting the reading room and collecting
material for a book you are writing on
some abstruse subject. You will have
few visitors now and again, among whom
Will be my messenger. He will give
you the papers, which you will bring to
,
and destroy Immediately. In this way, L
think shall be able to defeat any treach-
cry that may be at work"
1.-The plans will be of considerable
value I presume?
''Of the greatest 1t is for this reason
I Will not trust the post. My agent
might bring them to me himself, but
/ do not wish to run the risk of his being
seen here
7 see YOU think the traitor must be
close at hand
q am afraid so. cannot trust even
the walls,'' looking round with a slight
laugh, cor the lock of my Miner safe.
Whispers get abroad, which seem to
emanate from nowhere. If the intelli-
gence my present messenger is bringing
me should leak out, it would be most
disastrous.
you can trust this messenger com
pletely?"
Without any reserve. He will call
on you under the name of Watson. 1t
viii be as we'll for you not to come here
again until you bring the papers / have
taken means to prevent our being Watch
ed today. but / Will not chance another
Interview
But suppose it is absolutely necessary
that L should communicate with you.
What am l to do then? Write?'
ION no account Tt is possible that my
letters are being tempered with. There
is a young lad l employ occasionally
whose address [ will give you, to whom
you may safely entrust any written COM
munication, for he is stone blind, and
has been so from his birth. He is well
educated and belongs to very decent peo-
pie, and he can find his way about Won
defully I have never had cause to
doubt him. his blindness is almost a
proof of his fidelity, but to make quite
sure that he is not interfered with, you
can seal Your letter with your private
seal, and mark Oh it the time it was
dispatched 1 will neglect no precaution
this time"
could see that the chief was a good
deal disturbed, which was no wonder,
considering the responsibility which rest
ed on him, and 1 was determined that