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"Captain, I wish to make you acquainted with one of my dearest friends, who desires to place herself under your protection. She is the niece of the farmer who was arrested lately at Remilly, as you are aware, for being mixed up with that business of the francs-tireurs." "Yes, yes, I know; the affair of the spy, the poor fellow who was found in a sack with his throat cut.
"But if I should go with you, the people of your world would welcome you but they would imprison me or kill me as a spy." "No," and I smiled as I answered, "they do not kill women." During four brief days that remained until Capt. Grauble's vessel was due to depart my every hour was full of hurried preparations for my survey of the Arctic mines.
By heaven, it is so! you are come as a spy into the camp of the Indians to steal away the councils of the chiefs. Speak, what have you heard?" With these questions returned the calm and self-possession of the officer. He at once saw the importance of his answer, on which hung not merely his own last faint chance of safety, but that also of his generous deliverer.
"Yes, he has an old mother whom I have seen and have helped. I believe that it is his desire and interest to serve me and at the same time to keep his place as a paid spy." "What a droll arrangement! And are you really sure of him?" "Yes, as far as one can be sure of any one in this tangle of spies." "But does he not must he not seem to earn his outside pay?" "Yes, seem. I will call him in.
But Harry had recovered his strength and he was able to walk without Dalton's assistance, although the Virginian kept close by his side in case of necessity. "Harry," said Dalton, when they were nearly to the Lanham house, "are you willing to tell what happened?" "As nearly as I know. I got upon the trail of that spy who has been infesting Richmond.
"Ye know not why I put him to death," answered the King: "it is because I believe him to be a spy, who hath been suborned to kill me and came hither with that intent: and verily he who cured me by means of a handle held in my hand can easily poison me in like manner. If I spare him, he will infallibly destroy me: so needs must I kill him, and then I shall feel myself safe."
We escaped disaster by a miracle and my name is written in the pages of history as a scheming spy I who narrowly escaped the greatest diplomatic triumph of all ages. That is the epitome of my career. You believe me?" "I must," I answered. "I was reported to have committed suicide," he continued. "Nothing was ever farther from my thoughts." I followed an ancient maxim.
"The State Department," returned the Secretary, with withering reproof, "does not expect us to crawl over the roofs of houses and spy down chimneys to see if by any chance an American citizen is being murdered." "Well," exclaimed Ford, leaping to his feet and placing his notes in his pocket, "fortunately, my paper expects me to do just that, and if it didn't, I'd do it anyway.
Wherefore, on a day when three whole weeks were gone since the day of departure, she was glad when the castellan came to her and said: Lady, these two days I have had men out to spy the land, and their word goes that nought is stirring which a score of us well-armed might have cause to fear; wherefore to-morrow, if it be thy will, we shall bring thee out-a-gates, and so please thee, shall be in no haste to come back, but may lie out in the wildwood one night, and come back at our leisure on the morrow of to-morrow.
Indeed, it was hard to convince the authorities that Guthrie was a spy and not a mere accomplice who had turned State's evidence, a distinction of far-reaching legal significance so far as his evidence was concerned. The final episode in the drama was the unearthing by the police of Hoboken of the secret cache of the dynamiters, containing a large quantity of the explosive.