LONDON, AUTUMN 1865
Smith"s face was as expressionless as before as he stared at Jack across the width of the desk. “So you believe there are foreigners behind the Fenian movement.”
“I believe there are some foreigners involved,” Jack said. He had been surprised when Smith had ordered him to London from Ireland. “We know that Irishmen in the United States started the movement, and a fellow called Stephens seems to be the leader in Ireland.”
“That much is no secret,” Smith said. “It is the foreign connection that concerns me. Tell me what intelligence you have, Windrush.”
“The fellow Regan told me that he was recruited by a tall man who may have been a foreigner, as well as a woman.” Jack chose not to mention Helen.
“She"s probably some local woman the recruiter"s picked up,” Smith sai
