The Secret Adversary

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"A nurse's kit! Gee whiz! I must be going to Colney Hatch! I could swear
I've seen Jane in a nurse's cap too. And that's plumb impossible! No,
by gum, I've got it! It was her I saw talking to Whittington at that
nursing home in Bournemouth. She wasn't a patient there! She was a
nurse!"

"I dare say," said Tommy angrily, "she's probably been in with them from
the start. I shouldn't wonder if she stole those papers from Danvers to
begin with."

"I'm darned if she did!" shouted Julius. "She's my cousin, and as
patriotic a girl as ever stepped."

"I don't care a damn what she is, but get out of here!" retorted Tommy
also at the top of his voice.

The young men were on the point of coming to blows. But suddenly, with