who will pay for it. This service is generally entrusted with the
procuring of technical details, such as the plans of a new kind of gun
or data on a new and minor fortification. Mr. Vance Thompson has also
cited special missions like this one that follows.

Not often does the chance come to leave the regular channels of
espionage and go forth upon a mission out of the ordinary. That
chance came a few years ago to the Russian agents in Brussels. In
St. Petersburg the chiefs were desirous of knowing the identity and
names of a group of revolutionists who had formed a sort of colony in
Montreux, Switzerland. A French woman, known sometimes as Theresa
Prevost (the last I heard of her she was in prison) was detailed to
the mission. Young and clever was Theresa; likewise the man who was
ordered to accompany her, posing as a "brother," Charles Prevost.

The chief of these Russian fugitives, who were down around the lake of
Geneva, brewing their dark plans, was known. He was Goluckoffsky, and
he had a son twenty-two years of age--an impressionable Russian son.
Hence the young and pretty Theresa.

It was decided by her Brussels chiefs that she assume the role of an
heiress from Canada. Five thousand francs for preliminary expenses
were handed over to her and with Charles, the brother, she descended
upon Montreux. If you were there at the time you will recall the
social triumph made by the young Canadian heiress. You may even
remember that she seemed to be infatuated with the young
impressionable son of old Goluckoffsky. The day long they were
together. They were going to be married, and Charles Prevost the
"brother," stood in the background, chatted amiably with old
Goluckoffsky and his friends and smiled.