Though the members were of such divergent types, they had certain characteristics which marked them as men whom some common discipline had welded together. With the exception of the mechanic he was the youngest man present, and the minute book in front of him marked him as the secretary of the meeting. At the foot of the table, however, there sat a man who could not so readily be assigned to a place he might have been a diplomat, he might have been a detective, or he might have been one of those pseudo-aristocratic adventurers who hang upon the fringe of smart society. The faces varied greatly in type the chairman of the meeting had the air of a prosperous business man on his right was an unmistakable lawyer on his left, a benign old gentleman with a long white beard next to him, a mechanic of the better class opposite was a journalist. This suited admirably the purposes of its present users, whose work required absolute immunity from any sudden sound or change of light, and who had no wish to draw the attention of the neighbours to their proceedings.Īlthough the night was a sultry one, the group of men seated round the table seemed to suffer no inconvenience. The present users of the room, however, were apparently engaged in some matter which did not require a good top light, for a ceiling had been built across the span of the dome, and save for the steady purring of an electric fan behind the louvre boards of the lantern, no sign of life was apparent from the outside, the windowless walls and double roofing rendering the building light and sound-proof.

It was connected with the main building by a short passage, and its windowless walls supported a domed roof of glass.

AT THE BACK OF ONE OF THE MASSIVE, OLD-fashioned houses in a Bloomsbury Square was a single-storied structure originally intended by the architect for a billiard room.

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