The Secret Adversary

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"When you are stronger----"

"No--now!" Her voice rose a little. "I shall feel safer when I have told
everything."

"As you please," said the lawyer.

He sat down in one of the big arm-chairs facing the couch. In a low
voice Jane began her story.

"I came over on the Lusitania to take up a post in Paris. I was
fearfully keen about the war, and just dying to help somehow or other. I
had been studying French, and my teacher said they were wanting help in
a hospital in Paris, so I wrote and offered my services, and they were
accepted. I hadn't got any folk of my own, so it made it easy to arrange
things.