given for Secret Service purposes are expunged from every one's
memory."

She drew a little sigh.

"It is a great sum," she said. "After all, he should be grateful
to me. If only he would be sensible and get away to the United
States or to South America! He could live there like a prince,
poor fellow. He would be far happier."

"I only hope that he will go," Bellamy agreed. "There is one thing
to be remembered. If he does not go, if he stays for twenty-four
hours in this country, I do not believe that he will live to do you
harm. The men who are with him are not the sort to stop short at
trifles. Besides Streuss and Kahn, they have a regular army of
spies at their bidding here. If they find out that he has tricked
them, they will hunt him down, and before long."

Louise shivered.

"Oh, I hope," she exclaimed, "that he gets away! He is a traitor,
of course, but he is a traitor to a hateful cause, and, after all,
I think it is less for the money than for my sake that he does it.
That sounds very conceited, I suppose," she added, with a faint
smile. "Ah! well, you see, for five years so many have been trying
to turn my head. No wonder if I begin to believe some of their
stories. David, I must go. I must not keep Dr. Henschell waiting
any longer."

"To-morrow," he said, "to-morrow early I shall come. I am afraid