CHAPTER VI PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT

"When I heard how the enemy plotted and Dawson counter-plotted with all those skilled workmen in his detective service, it occurred to me that an enemy with imagination might counter-counterplot by getting men inside Dawson's defences.

plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue &c (cunning) 702.

" Dennett-driving drapers actually threatened to fail for the want of ten pounds!pastry-cooks, who took their families regularly "to summer at the sea," assisted the counter-plot, and prematurely dunned my husband!

Bloody years; a decade of plot and counter-plot by the Golden Horn (Pub. abroad as Golden Horn) © 5Aug32, AI-16747; 26Sep32, A56203.

Bloody years; a decade of plot and counter-plot by the Golden Horn (Pub. abroad as Golden Horn) © 5Aug32, AI-16747; 26Sep32, A56203.

And this is no less necessary in a bookseller than in any other tradesman, for in that way there are plots and counter-plots, and a whole army of hackney authors that keep their grinders moving by the travail of their pens.

We will wash down our diplomatic disagreement with a good drink of beer, and blue clouds of smoke from our pipes shall waft away all the intrigues, plots and counter-plots.