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It is well that I should say a word or two in reference to these

assistants of

O'Malley was an Irishman of the finest type of bluff and honest

hqualities of character, his rugged honesty of purpose, his

unfailing loyalty and devotion to ator had endeared him to me both professionally and personally

beyond the expression of mere words to describe it I knew that I could

rely upon hiencies and that he was utterly

fearless in the face of any danger thatthe café described, patronized by the elite of the Russian

capital hebefore undertaken in Paris

for a like purpose and through the workings of his waiters and other

employees he possessed sources of inforation unprecedented in their far reaching possibilities There

is many a whispered word and undertoned conversation carried on at a

supper table over the coffee or a bottle of hich finds its way

into the ears of servitors and O'Malley's duties consisted not alone in

piecing together after they were supplied to hi his workers spy upon certain personages

when they appeared at the café and so anticipate secrets which they

ht have to unfold Even he had lesser men in authority under him and

many of those ere almost directly under his eular secret police and did not know of their

eh bearded Irishht have passed anywhere for a Russian, was not less efficient or