About this story
Fellow volunteer Mary Lamington slips you a coded page under the dinner plates, leading you to a wealthy neutral named Moxon Ivery, whose glasshouse hides more than orchids. Ivery offers a courier's run to Holland, then recites the phrase meant to mark a friend. You take the packet anyway — and outside, Mary warns you it is bait, and Fosse has orders to kill you tonight.
How it opens
Your new beard belonged to Cornelius Brand, a South African opposed to Britain's war.
Sir Walter BullivantHannay, indignation will spoil the disguise faster than bad papers.
Sir Walter BullivantStudy these pamphlets; their arguments attract one hidden German agent.
Sir Walter BullivantThe network recruits through peace societies and sends men to defeat.
Sir Walter BullivantFosse Manor holds sincere idealists and one suspected traitor.
Sir Walter BullivantSound cowardly until the enemy trusts your useful resentment.