Last mission System

Chapter 83

The L. C. what's more, D.?" rehashed the watchman, evidently surprised that any one

ought to be uninformed about the significance of those initials. "Why, the London, Chatham

Furthermore, the Dover Rail line? Their last train left twenty minutes prior."

Here was a beautiful piece of information! I might have composed a long article on the

various cleared viæ that transmitted from old Rome, yet I knew close to nothing of the lines of railroad that radiate from present day London, and the possibility that there may be an iron street to the extraordinary city other than the one I was going by had never seemed obvious to me.

"I have had my long watch for no good reason," I mumbled brutally. "While I was

shuddering vulnerable, George, for all that I know in actuality, may have left the house by a secondary passage, and may now bowl en route to London.

Indeed, in any case, I'm close behind him. I will show up before the wedding, and you don't wed Daphne, George, till you have given a clari