The Lamar register., 1921-09-28

"It reminds one of those dreadful
barbarians, the sappers, trying to blow
up things" remarked Toby, stepping
with some agility into the garden; and
q moment or two later the American
Joined them.
'It may he necessary to do 1t again,
he announced, and as he spoke the
sound of a duh explosion came from
inside the house. "On the other hand,
he continued, going back into the room
and quietly pulling the safe door open
cit may not. There's your book. Cap
tain"
He calmly relit his cigar as If safe
opening was the most normal under
taking, and Drummond lifted out ths
heavy ledger and placed 1t on the ia
BILE.
$50 out in relays. boys" he said {,
the group of men by the door, "ant
get your breakfasts. I'm going to be
busy for a Bit
He sat down at the table and began
to turn the pages. The American was
amusing himself with the faxed Chi
in rwo chairs. unashamedly snoring.
And after while the detective put
down the cabinet and, coming over,
sat al Drummond's side.
Every page contained an entry
sometimes half dozen-Of the same
type. and as the imnenslty OF the
project dawned on the two men their
faces grew serious.
81 told you he was big man, Cap
tain," remarked the American, leaning
back in his chair and looking at the
open book through half-closed eyes.
"One can only hope TO Heaven that
we're in time" returned Hugh. "D-n
II, man." he exploded. surely the po-
lice must know OF this ~
The American closed his eyes still
more.
Your English police know most
things" he drawled, hut you've sort
of got some peculiar laws In your
country. With us. If We don't like II
man-something happens. He kind O.
ceases 10 sit up and take nourishment.
But over here, the more scurrilous he
u. ne luihS DioobHhth
riot. the more consrables does he get to
guard MIN from catching cold.
The soldier frowned.
Look al this entry here. he grunted
Thai blighter Is member Of parlia-
inent. What's he getting four payments
of a thousand pounds for?"
-Why. surely to buy some nice warm
underciothes with" erlnned the detec-
tive. Then he leaned forward and
glanced at the name. But isn'i be
some pot in one OF your big trade
unions?''
Heaven knows" grunted Hugh. Il
only saw the bllghter once, and then
his shirt was dirty He turned over
II few more pages thoughtfully. why.
IL these are the sums OF money Peter
son has blown, the man must have
spent fortune. Two thousand pounds
to Ivolsky. Incidentally, that's the
bloke who had words with the whatnot
on the stairs"
In silence they continued their study
of the book. The whole of England
and Scotland had been split up into
districts. regulated by population
rather than area, and each district ap-
peared to be In charge Of one director
A varying number of sub-districts In
every main division had each their sub
director and staff, and at some Of the
names Drummond rubbed his eyes in
amazement. Briefly. the duties Of every
man were outlined; the locality in
which his work lay, his exact responsi-
bilities, so that overlapping was re-
duced to minimum. In each case the
staff was small, the work largely that
of organization. But In each district
there appeared ten or dozen names
of men who were euphemistically de-
scribed as lecturers; while at the end
of the book there appeared nearly fifty
names-both of men and women-who
were proudly denoted as first-class lee
turers And II Drummond had rubbed
his eyes at some of the names on the
organizing stats. the first-class general
lecturers deprived him of speech.
why" he spiuttered after a mo-
ment, "a lot of these peoples names
are absolutely housewold words in the
country They may be swine-they
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