The Stolen Plans (1913) Online

The Stolen Plans (1913) Online

Because Captain West had won his position in the army by virtue of his superior intelligence rather than because his uncle had been a lord or anything of that sort. Captain Ashmay considered West "something of a rotter." Ashmay's resentment at the fact that he must perforce remain in the same regiment with a man so markedly beneath him in social position was considerably heightened when West beat him in the aeroplane race at the Autumn maneuvers. When he discovered that his sister was actually in love with West, Ashmay's feelings rose to the boiling point, and he forbade her to have any more to do with the man. Burgovitch, a mysterious individual, ostensibly a tourist, actually the secret agent of a foreign government, was in England for the single purpose of getting possession of the new biplane plans which were safely kept in Colonel Coldyke's safe. Burgovitch was a clever man. He studied men, and when he laid his plans, they were generally successful. Captain Ashmay 's father, in ...