delivered to Theresa; that night she and her "brother" left Montreux.
In two days the names of all the revolutionists in young
Goluckoffsky's handwriting and their pictures were delivered to the
chief in Brussels. A substantial fee was paid Theresa, besides, and
she must have smiled; some of those young Russians are delightful.

So much for an example of the clever work done by Brussels. The
German Service, in which I served on and off for twelve years, has
three distinct branches--the Army, Navy and Personal, each branch
having its own chief and its own corps of men and women agents. The
Army and Navy division is controlled by the General Staff of Berlin
(Grosser General Stabe), the most marvelous organization in the world.
The Political and Personal branch is controlled from the
Wilhelmstrasse, the German Foreign Office, the Emperor in person, or
his immediate Privy Councilor. The Army and Navy divisions confine
themselves to the procuring of hidden and secret information as
regards armaments, plans, discoveries, etc. The political branch
concerns itself with the supervision of meetings between potentates,
cabinet ministers and so forth. The Personal branch, under the direct
control of the Privy Councilor, is used by the Emperor for his own
special purposes and service in this branch is the _sine qua non_ of
the service.

The Personal consists of all classes of men and women. Princes and
counts, lawyers and doctors, actors and actresses, mondaines of the
great world, demi-mondaines of the half world, waiters and porters,
all are made use of as occasion arises. It may well happen that your
interesting acquaintance in the salon of an express steamer or your
charming companion in the tearoom of the Ritz is the paid agent of
some government. Great singers, dancers and artists, especially of