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
AT FIVE o’clock of a September evening, Helen Sholto left the office, as usual, and went to her club. Opposite the tube lift in Dover Street, London, out of which she came, was a bookstall. Clamoring across the front, a newsbill at once caught the eye of an informed modern woman:
She bought a copy of the Evening Press . Looking it quickly through, she found in the column for late news a blurred, hastily-inserted paragraph
Helen gasped. The words were like icy water thrown in the face. And the sensation of having had all the breath taken out of her body was increased by the knowledge that a second purchaser of the Evening Press , a rough-looking workman, standing by her elbow, had given a savage exclamation. Moreover, in the act of so doing, by that process of telepathy beyond whose threshold Science has yet to peer, he caught the distracted eyes of the particularly attractive-looking girl who was folding up her own copy of the paper.