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The Summons

CHAPTER XVIII
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But he took the photograph away from Medina and locked it up again.

The rapturous reminiscences of Rosa Hahn's intelligence checked the flow of that story which was to lead him to B45.
"So you know about her ?" Jose said with an envious eye upon the locked drawer.
"A little," said Martin Hillyard.
Rosa Hahn was a clerk in the office of the Hamburg-Amerika Line before the war, and in the Spanish Department.

She was sent to Spain in the last days of July, 1914, upon Government work, and at a considerable salary, which she enjoyed.

She seemed indeed to have done little else, and Berlin, after a year, began to complain.

Berlin had a lower opinion of both her social position and her brains than Jose Medina had formed.
Berlin needed results, and failing to obtain them, proceeded to hint more and more definitely that Rosa had better return to her clerk's stool in Hamburg.


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