CHAPTER XV

THE LANDLORD Alf's great scheme indeed was prospering. Thwarted by the Woman, and driven back upon himself, he had taken up the career of action at the point where he had left it to pursue an adventure that had brought him no profit and incredible bitterness. Fortune had favoured him. Just at the moment Ruth had baffled him, another enemy of his, the Red Cross Garage Syndicate, which in the early days of his career had throttled him, came to grief. Alf saw his chance, and flung himself into the new project with suc…