wiki-illiam #107: q12

[dubdobdee]

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i: Rosa
I've seen SB's tentative answer to this, but it has vanished! Sean can you repost it (SB via googlebooks)
ii: Aymer
Aymer is VALLANCE in Free Fishers (SB via googlebooks)
iii: Reinmar
Reinmar is DR CHRISTOPH in "The Loathly Opposite", a story in The Runagates Club (SB via googlebooks)
iv: Clarence Donne
The Graf OTTO VON SCHWABING, Richard Hannay's foe in various John Buchan novels, was an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy notorious good with disguise: in Mr Standfast he poses as a Kansan journalist called Clarence Donne (RB via google)
v: Alexander Thomson
SANDY ARBUTHNOT uses this name in The Three Hostages (BBP, google)
vi: Captain Theophilus Digby
In Buchan's The 39 Steps, A freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on Hannay to ask for help, but is murdered -- the corpse is given the name Digby for reasons I can't recall (PJ)
vii: Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson is ALASTAIR MACLEAN in Midwinter (SB via googlebooks)
viii: James Smith
James Smith is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep
(SB via googlebooks)
ix: Newsom
In The House of the Four Winds, Newsom the chauffeur is really PRINCE JOHN (DDD via googlebooks)
x: Tuke
In Power-house, Tuke is really ROUTH (DDD via googlebooks)

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ix: "It was Newsom the chauffeur, transfigured beyond belief. He had become a younger man,. for exertion had coloured his pallid skin, his whiskers had disappeared, and his touzled hair had lost its touch of grey (...) 'You saved my life,' she cried. 'The shot was meant for me. You are a hero. Oh, tell me your name.' He turned took her hand, bent over it and kissed it. 'I am Prince John, ' he said, 'and I think you are going to be kind enough to help me to a throne."

The House of the Four Winds, John Buchan, p134, via googlebooks