had; before the outbreak of War turned suddenly the revolting women into the stanchest patriots and the right hands of muddling ministers.

For in addition to many a rich find in No.

94 and a dozen captives caught red-handed in making mock of the Authorities, the plain-clothes policemen made themselves thoroughly at home in Mr.Michaelis's quarters till the following Monday.

And when in the fore-noon of that day, Mr.Michaelis entered his rooms, puzzled and perturbed at finding the outer door ajar, he was promptly arrested on a multiform charge of arson ...

and on being conveyed to a police station and searched he was found to be Miss Vivien Warren.
At intervals in the summer and early autumn of 1913 the male section of the public had been horrified and scandalized at the destruction going on in racing establishments, particularly those of Sir George Crofts and of a well-known South American millionaire, whose distinguished services to British commerce and immense donations to Hospitals and Homes would probably be rewarded by a grateful government.