January 16, 1917 (From Murder in Belgravia)As Captain Smithwick and I entered the old farmhouse once again, I was hit with the smells of stale cigarette smoke, horse manure, and oakwood burning in the
Continue readingJanuary 15, 1917(From Murder in Belgravia) The meeting in Maubeuge at an old farmhouse outside of a French village near the front took place in the early evening. The location, although behind enemy
Continue readingSeptember 13, 1916I actually had a bit of free time today, a very rare occurrence indeed, so I arranged to meet Nurse Haley Higgins over lunch. We’d met last summer when I delivered a wounded French
Continue readingAugust 19, 1916As usual, I’m carefully using my own code system to record my life as an operative. A year has past and I find that I have almost settled into a kind of normalcy. It never ceases to amaze
Continue readingJune 14, 1916 Yesterday I was summoned to a farm on the outskirts of a village just inside the border of Belgium near Passchendeale. Members of the French and Belgium spy network had stolen a German
Continue readingBaby ~Just when I thought I had done and seen just about everything imaginable as a secret service operative, yesterday, life threw me another surprise yesterday.I’d been visiting a farm on the outskirts
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