[The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link book
The Great Impersonation

CHAPTER XXIII
8/24

The authorised staff of our secret service can only work underneath.

You can see for yourself the advantage we gain in having a confidential correspondent who can day by day reflect the changing psychology of the British mind in all its phases.

We have quite enough of the other sort of help arranged for.
Plans of ships, aerodromes and harbours, sailings of convoys, calling up of soldiers--all these are the A B C of our secret service profession.
We shall never ask our friend here for a single fact, but, from his town house in Berkeley Square, the host of Cabinet Ministers, of soldiers, of the best brains of the country, our fingers will never leave the pulse of Britain's day by day life." Stephanie threw herself back in her easy-chair and clasped her hands behind her head.
"These things you are expecting from our present host ?" "We are, and we expect to get them.

I have watched him day by day.

My confidence in him has grown." Stephanie was silent.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books