"The First 'Mission'"
Written by
Henry de Halsalle
Copyright 1917
3rd story included in the collection .
In her first official assignment, Olga von Marx is to attend a "a secret meeting in a small hall" in Berlin, convened by "some persons styling themselves the 'International Labor Union' but in fact being people "stirring up of unrest and serious disaffection among German workers". von Marx's task is to sketch the likeness of the key "moving spirits".