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I denied any knowledge of this, although I knew it to be so.
He began his fishing around again and his hints found me very stupid.
My unsatisfactory answers seemed to displease Sir Edward Grey, for
with true British discourtesy he abruptly began working at something
on his desk and without even saying good day, let a commissaire bow me
out.
A few days later I received definite instructions from Captain
Robinson. I was to go on my first mission in the interests of the
British Secret Service and subsequently another mission brought me to
New York, where I resigned from service permanently.
Chapter XI. To New York for England
It was in December, 1912, that I again felt the thrill of the old game
as I moved about London under the plausible name of "Trenton Snell,"
engaged in guarding or obtaining state secrets, but this time for a
new master. English secret agents are allowed liberal expense money
and my work in London and other points in the British Isles was not so
arduous as to prevent my taking frequent holidays. I judged that
Downing Street was holding me for something big should the occasion
arise. In London, my chief work for a time was counteracting the
machinations and influences of German agents, forever infesting the
British capital. Many a neat little plan inspired by the gentlemen of
the Wilhelmstrasse went wrong during those next few weeks and back in
Berlin they began to think that their spies had lost their cunning.
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