Bernard Treves's Boots: A Novel of the Secret Service

BERNARD TREVES'S BOOTS
A NOVEL OF THE SECRET SERVICE
LAURENCE CLARKE
AUTHOR OF A PRINCE OF INDIA, ETC.
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON 1920
DEDICATION
To Sir Emsley Carr, who suggested that I should write this book, and to whom I am much indebted for valuable first-hand incidents which figure in these pages.
January , 1920.
CHAPTER I
Are you sure your name is Manton?
Captain Gilbert looked keenly across the table. The light in the little room was not good, and the expression on the Captain's face was one of intense interest and bewilderment.
Quite sure, sir—John Manton, answered the man standing at the further side of the table.