er Suffragist activities and guessed she might
want it occasionally for eluding the police on trips
abroad.--H.H.J.]

One reason I have in writing this letter--a letter I hope
you will burn after you have read and noted its contents--is
to ask you to lend me for a while the services of Bertie
Adams as clerk. Of course I shall insist on paying his
salary whilst I employ him, and indemnifying him for
anything he may suffer in my service--that of the W.S.P.U. I
am fairly well off for money now. Besides the funds the
W.S.P.U. places at my disposal, I have the interest on
mother's Ten Thousand pounds, and she would give me more if
I asked for it. She has quite taken to the idea of spending
her ill-gotten gains on the Enfranchisement of Women! (I am
going over to see her for a week or so, when it is not quite
so cold.)

What business am I going specially to undertake in Mr.
Michaelis's office on the top storey of 88-90? I will tell
you. Scotland Yard is getting busy about us, the
Suffragists, trying to find out all it can that is
detrimental to our personal characters, our upbringing, our
progeniture, our businesses and our relations; whether we
had a forger in the family, whether I am the daughter of the
"notorious" Mrs. Warren, whether Mrs. Canon Burstall is
really my aunt and whether she couldn't be brought to use
her private influence on me to keep me quiet, in case it
came out that Kate Warren was her sister, and that she led
Kate into that way of life wherein she earned her shameful
livelihood. I have had one or two covert hints from Aunt Liz
promising to open up relations _if_ only I'll behave myself!
Scotland Yard has already had the sorry triumph of causing
one or two of our most prominent workers to retire from the
ranks because they were not properly married or had been
married after the eldest child was born; or had once "been
in trouble," over some peccadillo, or had had a son or a
sister who though now upright and prosperous had once been
in the clutches of the law.

Now my idea is to turn the tables on all this. I myself am
impeccable in a real court of equity. My avatar as David
Williams was by way of being a superb adventure. I only
retired from the harmless imposture lest I might compromise
you,