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"How the devil do you know that?" he cried

"I know it," said Colonel Hughes, "because one oftea at a table near by He happened to be having tea there for

the reason that ever since the arrival of this lady in London, at the

request of--er--friends in India, I have been keeping track of her every

move; just as I kept watch over your late brother, the captain"

Without a word Lieutenant Fraser-Freer dropped into a chair and buried

his face in his hands

"I'hes "Really, I a out--abefore you did that your brother had

succu her and Berlin, and

not his own country, England"

Fraser-Freer raised his head When he spoke there was in his voice an

emotion vastly more sincere than that which had ame's up," he said "I have done all I could This will kill my

father, I am afraid Ours has been an honorable na line of military men whose loyalty to their country has

never before been in question I thought my confession would and the

whole nasty business, that the investigations would stop, and that

Iabout

him--about my brother"