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From our position on horseback close 

 behind him we were able to see that our 

 foreigner was reading a guide book and 

 was studying a map of the fortifications 

 through which we were passing. Sud- 

 denly he called to the driver to stop for 

 a moment while he lit a match for his 

 cigarette. The driver pulled up, and so 



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An instance of how an effective disguise 

 can be assumed on the spur of the moment. 

 This disguise was effected in two minutes 



did we. The stranger glanced up to see 

 that the man was not looking round, and 

 then quickly slipped a camera from under 

 the rug which was lying on the seat in 

 front of him, and taking aim at the 

 entrance shaft of a new ammunition 

 store which had just been made for our 

 Navy, he took a snapshot. Then hur- 

 riedly covering up the camera again he 

 proceeded to strike matches and to 

 light his cigarette. We followed close 

 behind him till we came to where a 

 policeman was regulating the traffic. I 

 rode ahead and gave him his instructions 

 so that the carriage was stopped and the 

 man was asked to show his permit to 

 take photographs. He had none. The 

 camera was taken into custody and the 

 name and address of the owner taken 

 "with a view to further proceedings." 



The Pluck of a Spy 



Except in the case of the traitor spy, 

 one does not quite understand why a spy 

 should necessarily be treated worse than 

 any other combatant, nor why his occu- 

 pation should be looked upon as con- 

 temptible, for, whether in peace or war, 

 his work is of a very dangerous kind. It 

 is intensely exciting, and though in some 

 cases it brings a big reward, the best 

 spies are unpaid men who are doing it 



for the love of the thing, and as a really 

 effective step to gaining something valua- 

 ble for their country. 



Many interesting schemes are re- 

 sorted to in spying. Once I went 

 "butterfly hunting" in Dalmatia. Car- 

 rying a sketch-book, a color-box and a 

 butterfly net in my hand, I was above all 

 suspicion to anyone who met me on the 

 lonely mountain side, even in the neigh- 

 borhood of the forts. I was hunting 

 butterflies, and it was always a good 

 introduction with which to go to anyone 

 who was watching me with suspicion. 



They did not look sufficiently- closely 

 into the sketches of butterflies to notice 

 that the delicately drawn veins of 

 the wings were exact representations, 

 in plan, of their own fort, and that the 

 spots on the wings denoted the number 

 and position of guns and their different 

 calibers. 



The use of hair in disguising the face is 

 perfectly useless unless the eyebrows are 

 considerably changed. The brow and 

 the back of the head are also extremely 

 important factors in the art of disguise. 

 The second picture shows the effect of 

 "improving" the eyebrows of the face on 

 the left, and also of raising the hair on the 

 brow, while the third sketch shows what 

 a difference the addition of a beard and 

 extra hair on the back can make 



The matter of disguise Is obviously an 

 important one. I was at one time 

 watched by a detective who was one day 

 a soldierly-looking fellow and the next 

 an in\alid with a patch over his eye. I 

 could not believe it was the same man 

 until I watched him from behind and 

 saw him walking, when at once his indi- 

 viduality was apparent. It is wonder- 

 ful what a difference is made by merely 

 altering your hat and necktie. It is 

 usual for a person addressing another to 

 take note of his necktie, and probably 

 of his hat, if of nothing else, and thus it 

 is often useful to carry a necktie and a 

 cap of totally different hue from that 

 which >ou are wearing, ready to change 

 immediately in order to escape recogni- 

 tion a few minutes later. 



