DEAR MICHAEL,--
I'm so glad you got returned all right by your University. I
feared very much your championship of the Woman's Cause
might have told against you. But these newer Universities
are more liberal-minded.
I am keeping my promise to tell you of any important move I
am making. So this is to inform you, _in very strict
confidence_, of my latest dodge. For the effective
organization of my particular branch of the W.S.P.U.
activities, I must have an office. "The Lilacs" is far too
small, and besides I shrink from having my little home
raided or too much visited even by confederates. I learned
the other day that the old Fraser and Warren offices on the
top floor of 88-90 Chancery Lane were vacant. The Midland
Insurance Co. that occupied nearly all the building has
cleared out and the block is to be given over to a multitude
of small undertakings. Well: I secured our old rooms! Simply
splendid, with the two safes that Honoria, untold ages ago,
fitted into the walls, and hid so cleverly that if there is
no treachery it would be hard for the police to find them
and raid them. The Midland Insurance Co. did not behave well
to Fraser and Warren, so Beryl Storrington, when she was
clearing out said nothing about the safes, which were not
noticed by the Company.
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