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THE PRIME MINISTER

of Police; another is a plain-clothes officer, and carries a notebook; the third is in the ordinary clothes of a gentleman.

Inspector.
[Stopping Otto.] One moment. Your name, please?

Otto.
[Bridling up.] What's that to you?

Inspector.
Come, don't be rude, young man. We are Inspectors of Police, making the register of enemy aliens under the new military regulations.

Otto.
[Trying to push past.] Are you indeed? Well, I've got to meet a train at Charing Cross at four o'clock, so if you'll be good enough to——

Inspector.
[Blocking way.] Your name, please.

Otto.
[Sulkily.] Otto Schiller, if you must know.

Officer in Plain Clothes.
He can be allowed to go.

Otto.
Can he? Enemy aliens, are we? Ugh!

[He goes out with snorts of contempt. The men step farther into the room.