THE MASQUERADER

I

Two incidents, widely different in character yet bound
together by results, marked the night of January the
twenty-third. On that night the blackest fog within a four
years' memory fell upon certain portions of London, and also
on that night came the first announcement of the border
risings against the Persian government in the province of
Khorasan the announcement that, speculated upon, even smiled
at, at the time, assumed such significance in the light of
after events.

At eight o'clock the news s...