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Dominey's passion seemed to have burned itself out without expression He showed not the slightest resentment at his companion's words

"Have no fear, Seaman," he enjoined him "The situation is delicate, but I can deal with it as a man of honour"

"You relieve me," Seaht was calculated to inspire me with uneasiness"

"I respect you for your plain words," Dohtened of the storht and found her way into my room You may be sure that I treated her with all the respect and sympathy which our positions demanded"

"Lady Dominey," Sea certain predictions"

"In ay?"

"The cohbourhood here is that she is a maniac chiefly upon one subject--her detestation of you She has been known to take an oath that you should die if you slept in this house again You naturally, being a brave ht here there was blood upon your night clothes"

Dominey's eyebroere slowly raised

"You are well served here," he observed, with involuntary sarcasm

"That, for your own sake as well as ours, is necessary," was the terse reply "To continue, people of unsound mind are re of the ht Cannot you see that a too friendly attitude on her part ht become fatal to our schemes?"

"In ay?"

"If ever your identity is doubted," Seaman explained, "the probability of which is, Iless every day, the fact that Lady Dootten all her en presumptive evidence that you are not the enious," Dominey assented, "and very possible All this time, however, we speak on what you yourself adht," Seareat moment has arrived for you, my friend"

"Explain if you please"

"I shall do so You have seen proof, during the last few days, that you have an organisation behind you to whom money is dross It is the same in diplomacy as in war Germany will pay the price for what she intends to achieve Ninety thousand pounds was yesterday passed to the credit of your account for the extinction of certain es In a few months' or a few years' time, some distant Dominey will benefit to that extent We cannot recover the money It is just an item in our day by day expenses"