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Two men sat in a big, handsome dining-room in one of the finest houses in Park Lane. One was Theodore Drost, dressed in his usual garb of a Dutch pastor. A look of satisfaction overspread his features as he raised his glass of choice Chateau Larose.
Opposite him at the well-laid luncheon table sat his friend, Ernst Ortmann, alias Horton, alias Harberton, the super-spy whose hand was -- if the truth be told -- "The Hidden Hand" upon which the newspapers were ever commenting -- that secret and subtle influence of Germany in our midst in war-time.