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 dined together at some café, and spent the evening together either in their rooms or—presumably—seeing the sights. Mrs. Dart seemed to take no more than a kindly landlady’s interest in their doings, and Barney remained dumb so religiously that his mouth ached.

But under the surface of this daily round, Barney saw various hidden activities always on the alert. The teacher who came to give him lip readings, spied and listened at the door, and watched about her in the restaurant and on the streets. He recognized operatives of the Babbing Bureau in the casual passers-by wherever he went. Babbing continually “tested” himself to see whether he was being followed when he was out with Barney; and when they went to the Cranmer building of an evening, it was always in the office of Adam Cook that Babbing received his men and worked on his cases. They were reporting regularly on the Dart gang.

Barney was not allowed to go alone on the