The
COUNCIL OF SEVEN
By
J. C. SNAITH
The Council of Seven
The Adventurous Lady
The Undefeated
The Sailor
The Time Spirit
The Coming
Anne Feversham
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Publishers New York
The
COUNCIL OF SEVEN
BY
J. C. SNAITH
AUTHOR OF “THE UNDEFEATED,” “THE
SAILOR,” “BROKE OF COVENDEN,” ETC.
McCLELLAND & STEWART
PUBLISHERS TORONTO
1921
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The
COUNCIL OF SEVEN
I
AT FIVE o’clock of a September evening, HelenSholto left the office, as usual, and went to herclub. Opposite the tube lift in Dover Street, London,out of which she came, was a bookstall. Clamoringacross the front, a newsbill at once caught the eye of aninformed modern woman:
| BRITAIN AND AMERICA |
| AMAZING SPEECH BY |
| JOHN ENDOR, M.P. |
She bought a copy of the Evening Press. Lookingit quickly through, she found in the column for latenews a blurred, hastily-inserted paragraph
| THE ANGLO-AMERICAN SITUATION |
| Speaking to-day at Blackhampton Town Hall at a luncheon given in his honor, John Endor, M.P., said that this country’s relations with America were bound to prove a source of continual and growing anxiety. Dangerous, subterranean influences were at work on both sides of the Atlantic. In many things of vital importance the two nations would never see eye to eye. Let the people of these islands always stand ready. Personally, he believed in the Sword. |
[2]Helen gasped. The words were like icy waterthrown in the face. And the sensation of having hadall the breath taken out of her body was increased bythe knowledge that a second purchaser of the EveningPress, a rough-looking workman, standing by her elbow,had given a savage exclamation. Moreover, inthe act of so doing, by that process of telepathy beyondwhose threshold Science has yet to peer, he caught thedistracted eyes of the particularly attractive-lookinggirl who was folding up her own copy of the paper.
“Does for him, I reckon!” And the man spatsavagely.
Helen turned abruptly away, and walked slowlyalong Dover Street. A thousand imps were loose inher brain. Space