Chapter IV.

A True Briton.

The president heard Viki's story and looked profoundly wise. At last with aspect Sybilline, she spoke. "There are wheels within wheels," she husked. "This man apparently working for the disruption of all we hold so dear, and have bought so dearly (e.g., our Rhodesian copper-mines, our reserve labour supply, and freedom of the employer to enjoy the fruits of his own labourers) is in reality (for a small remuneration) watching the workers' movement from inside and keeping the Police informed of their actions. He must watch the 50% of our students who are tinged with this blight. (Five hundred students Can be wrong.) It is men like this that have made our democracy what it is to-day.

"By the way, can you billet someone. . . .?"