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great country to fight for, and a just cause. I saw Hebblethwaite as I came in. He is a changed man. Talks about raising an immense citizen army in six months. Both his boys have taken up commissions. Hebblethwaite himself is going around the country, recruiting. They are his people, after all. He has given them their prosperity at the expense, alas! of our safety. It’s up to them now to prove whether the old spirit is there or not. We shall need two million men. Hebblethwaite believes we shall get them long before the camps are ready to receive them. If we do, it will be his justification.”

      “And if we don’t?” Anna murmured.

      Norgate threw his head a little further back.

      “Most pictures,” he said, “have two sides, but we need only look at one. I am going to believe that we shall get them. I am going to remember the only true thing that fellow Selingman ever said: that our lesson had come before it is too late. I am going to believe that the heart and conscience of the nation is still a live thing. If it is, dear, the end is certain. And I am going to believe that it is!”

      HAVOC

       Table of Contents

       I. Crowned Heads Meet

       II. Arthur Dorward’s “Scoop”

       III. “Ours Is A Strange Courtship”

       IV. The Night Train From Vienna

       V. “Von Behrling Has The Packet”

       VI. Von Behrling Is Tempted

       VII. “We Play For Great Stakes”

       VIII. The Hand Of Misfortune

       IX. Robbing The Dead

       X. Bellamy Is Outwitted

       XI. Von Behrling’s Fate

       XII. Baron De Streuss’ Proposal

       XIII. Stephen Laverick’s Conscience

       XIV. Arthur Morrison’s Collapse

       XV. Laverick’s Partner Flees

       XVI. The Waiter At The “Black Post”

       XVII. The Price Of Silence

       XVIII. The Lonely Chorus Girl

       XIX. Mysterious Inquiries

       XX. Laverick Is Cross-Examined

       XXI. Mademoiselle Idiale’s Visit

       XXII. Activity Of Austrian Spies

       XXIII. Laverick At The Opera

       XXIV. A Supper Party At Luigi’s

       XXV. Jim Shepherd’s Scare

       XXVI. The Document Discovered

       XXVII. Penetrating A Mystery

       XXVIII. Laverick’s Narrow Escape

       XXIX. Lassen’s Treachery Discovered

       XXX. The Contest For The Papers

       XXXI. Miss Leneveu’s Message

       XXXII. Morrison Is Desperate

       XXXIII. Laverick’s Arrest

       XXXIV. Morrison’s Disclosure

       XXXV. Bellamy’s Success

       XXXVI. Laverick Acquitted

       XXXVII. The Plot That Failed

       XXXVIII. A Farewell Appearance

      I. CROWNED HEADS MEET

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      Bellamy, King’s Spy, and Dorward, journalist, known to fame in every English-speaking country, stood before the double window of their spacious sitting-room, looking down upon the thoroughfare beneath. Both men were laboring under a bitter sense of failure. Bellamy’s face was dark with forebodings; Dorward was irritated and nervous. Failure was a new thing to him—a thing which those behind the great journals which he represented understood less, even, than he. Bellamy loved his country, and fear was gnawing at his heart.

      Below, the crowds which had been waiting patiently for many hours broke into a tumult of welcoming voices. Down their thickly-packed lines the volume of sound arose and grew, a faint murmur at first, swelling and growing to a thunderous roar. Myriads of hats were suddenly torn from the heads of the excited multitude, handkerchiefs waved from every window. It was a wonderful greeting, this.

      “The

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