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"He has been arrested as a Serbian spy, and military passes in your name were found upon his person together with the papers of an American newspaper correspondent, which he claims to be. He is charged with being Stefan Drontoff, whom we long have been anxious to apprehend. Do you chance to know anything about him, Prince Peter?" "Yes," replied Peter of Blentz, "I know him well by sight.
"He will be destroyed with the others here is the order," and he handed the subaltern a printed form upon which many names were filled in and at the bottom of which the general had just signed his own. It had evidently been waiting the outcome of the examination of Stefan Drontoff. Surrounded by soldiers, Barney Custer walked from the presence of the military court.
"We must search the house, fraulein," came in the deep voice of a man. "Whom do you seek?" inquired a woman's voice. Barney recognized it as the voice of his captor. "A Serbian spy, Stefan Drontoff," replied the man. "Do you know him?" There was a considerable pause on the girl's part before she answered, and then her reply was in such a low voice that Barney could barely hear it.
"I do not know him," she said. "There are several men who lodge here. What may this Stefan Drontoff look like?" "I have never seen him," replied the officer; "but by arresting all the men in the house we must get this Stefan also, if he is here." "Oh!" cried the girl, a new note in her voice, "I guess I know now whom you mean.
"Who is the mad man?" cried the captain who had broken Barney's fall. "The assassin! He tried to murder me." "I cannot doubt it," replied the officer who had just descended, "for the fellow is no other than Stefan Drontoff, the famous Serbian spy!" "Himmel!" ejaculated the officers in chorus. "You have done a good days' work, lieutenant."
I would even stretch a point rather than chance harming an American; but you will admit that the evidence is all against you. You were found in the very building where Drontoff was known to stay while in Burgova. The young woman whose mother keeps the place directed our officer to your room, and you tried to escape, which I do not think that an innocent American would have done.
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