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The Bomb-Makers

By William Le Queux

2020-03-03 23:10:52

"Do get rid of the girl! Can't you see that she's highly dangerous!" whispered the tall, rather overdressed man as he glanced furtively across the small square shop set with little tables, dingy in the haze of tobacco-smoke. It was an obscure, old-fa ... Read more
"Do get rid of the girl! Can't you see that she's highly dangerous!" whispered the tall, rather overdressed man as he glanced furtively across the small square shop set with little tables, dingy in the haze of tobacco-smoke. It was an obscure, old-fashioned little restaurant in one of London's numerous byways-a resort of Germans, naturalised and otherwise, "the enemy in our midst," as the papers called them. "I will. I quite agree. My girl may know just a little too much-if we are not very careful." "Ah! she knows far too much already, Drost, thanks to your ridiculous indiscretions," growled the dark-eyed man beneath his breath. "They will land you before a military court-martial-if you are not careful!" "Well, I hardly think so. I'm always most careful-most silent and discreet," and he grinned evilly.  Less

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File size107.459 KB
Print pages64
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1494233495
William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 - 13 Oct 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat , a traveller , a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at ...

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