India House Chapter 20 - A Moved Inkpot

Stakes are raised

This chapter is an attempt at adding some cloak-and-dagger shenanigans. I didn’t have that much to go off for this one, so I tried to make it an Ocean’s Eleven level of intrigue - some intrigue, not too much, because we’re just getting things started.

The excerpt from Savarkar by Vikram Sampath I went off of:

“Shyamji realized that it would be impossible for him to continue his work in this hostile situation in London. The breaking point came when O’Brien, a detective from Scotland Yard, arrived to India House posing as an Irish sympathizer and a staffer of the Gaelic American. He had attended meetings of India House as a spy from early 1907 itself. On this occasion, he solicited Shyamji for an interview in such a clumsy manner that it alerted the latter. Shyamji thereafter decided to leave Britain for good and move to Paris in September 1907.”

There was another passage about journalists at India House that I’m not able to find now, but that was also what I went off of.

Hope I’ve done justice to the images this might conjure!

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A Moved Inkpot