Spy Plot Unfolds Amid Era War Tension in Europe
In a 1916 fiction excerpt, Jane Gerson battles customs in Calais on a buying trip to Paris. Captain Woodhouse, a Wilhelmstrasse spy, helps her while trouble brews as Capper plots in Alexandria and a key switching scheme unfolds in a Berlin and Egypt network.
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the Bobbs-Merrill Company
Bright
Jane Gerson
Europe
Hildebrand’s
New York
Calais
Woodhouse
Egypt
Paris
Jane
Poiret
Worth
Pacquin
Doeuillet
Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse
Germany
Louisa
Billy Capper
Malta
Capper
Alexandria
Captain Woodhouse
Castle Lair
Koch
Wady Halfa
Michenstow
Hidden plot aboard Rock of Gibraltar mission boosts Worden escape plan
In a tense scene at a private consult room, Doctor Koch and two aides prepare a kidnapped Englishman for transport to the Libyan Desert. The plan, involving disguise and desert guardians, targets a move on the Rock of Gibraltar with Captain Woodhouse and a signal service operative.
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Train Service Brotherhoods
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission i
Capper
Mani
Captain Woodhouse
Koch
Woodhouse
Gibraltar
Wady Hafia
Gibralter
Kongo
Moe
Doctor Koch
Libyan
Fezzan
Guaze
Egypt
Caesar
Signal Service
Wilhelmstrasse
Staith
Doctor Koch Fir
Princess Mary
C.G. Woodhouse
Sig
William Capper
Florence
Baker
Creswell
Defendent S.P. Co
Springfield
Helens
John, Phillips
Milton
Carnegie Library
Astoria Flouring Mills Co
Marshfield
Yale—American Nitrate Co
Lake County
Menasha
Wooden Ware .Co
Chicago
Roseburg
City
Pittsburg
North
Umpqua
Kendal Brothers
Willow Creek
Grants Pass
Takilma
Port Orford
S. F. Lumber Company
Joseph—McCully Merchantile Co
Oregon City
Portland
Astoria
Salem
S. Commercial St
Paisley
Pilot Rock
Eugene
Southern
Oregon Traction
Blue Ledge
Silver Lake
Oregon
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SSC
Coaam
Congress
Newlands
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ite
National Conference Committee of the Railways
Elisha Lee
P. R. Albright
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
L. W. Baldwin
Central of Georgia Railway
C. L. Bardo
Meneger
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
H. Coapman
Southern Railway
B. Cotter
G. H. Emerson
Great Northern Railway
C. H. Ewing
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
W. Grice
Cheeepeake & Ohio Railway
Greig
Asi Losin
San Francles Helireed
C. W. Kouns
Atebicon
Topeka & Santa Fe
Reilwep
H. W
N. D. Maher
Meriolkestern Railway
James Russell
Denver
Earl Derr. Biggers
Robert Welles Ritchie
Earl Derr Biggers
Queen’s Terrace
Alk
Woodhoust
Industrial Review
Chemawaees
Coos Bay
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
William Harrison
James Knox Polk
Franklin
Sir Walter Scott
John
Adams
James
Madison
Martin van Buren
John Tyler
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