"You are going away again?"

"Yes."

"And you will not tell me where you are going."

"I cannot," answered Cartoner.

"Then I will tell you," said Lady Orlay, who, as Paul Deulin had said,
was very experienced and very discerning.

"You are going to Russia, all of you."




VII

AT THE FRONTIER

Daylight was beginning to contend with the brilliant electric
illumination of the long platform as that which is called the Warsaw
Express steamed into Alexandrowo Station. There are many who have never
heard of Alexandrowo, and others who know it only too well.

How many a poor devil has dropped from the footboard of the train
just before these electric lights were reached--to take his chance of
crossing the frontier before morning--history will never tell! How many
have succeeded in passing in and out of that dread railway station with