The Great Prince Shan

which the latter had used as a boudoir. They were d

clared, "that you wi

Nigel. I should be married at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, and have the Annersley child

talise me,

uld hate having my worthy aunt as resident duenna, and I suppose it would be gloriously impr

up for some more tea. "I met a perfectly adorable girl to-day at luncheon at th

?" Maggie enquir

me is Naida Karetsky. K

e one expression he had never before seen in her face-fea

repeated. "Tell me exa

stopped to speak to Karschoff and asked him to present me

r way to make your

suppose

ow who

the Russian Consuls ov

elf. She is the most vital force in Russian politics. She is the woman whom I wanted you to know,

meet her?" he a

o years older than I, but she stayed there until

greatly

surprises me," he admitted. "She has the air of counting f

he great Paul Matinsky himself. They say that he would give his soul to

rowned

g rather a long

as never been a word of scandal concerning him and Naida, nor will there ever be. But in his eyes, Naida has that most wonderful gift of all,-she has vision. He once told a m

ed, "but she has asked

ou personally, or was it beca

l si

but I cannot tell. She asked me wheth

tell her?" she

fter all she is in the enemy camp. She and

gie declared. "She always used to speak so affectionate

at you have,"

meeting in London-within the next week or ten days, to take counsel together to decide whether the things which are being plotted against us to-day shall be or shall not be.

l demanded, a little carried

ook he

about him are true, no man nor any woman could ever inf

o be coming to Paris, not

will go. So shall we. If he comes here, it will be ea

e is clearly of the opinion that the open verdict was a merciful

d!" Maggie

blood, here in the heart of London, by the secret service agent of a foreign Power. The strangest part of it all is that it is true

corsets!" M

moment. Then Nigel moved tow

ill you, Maggie?" he begged. "Let us

h lingers for long in an apartment which has become associated with tragedy. Instinctively they all moved quietly and spoke in hushed voices. Nigel sa

me once more. You see how far it is from this table to the door. My uncle must have had abundant w

I did not mention it at the inquest. The cleaners were here on the morning of that day, an

although there were iron railings separating it from the street, a little gate opening fr

having been mentioned at th

to every one there, if your lordship will excuse my saying so, that both the corone

l no

ate, Brookes," he said. "So long as the verdict was returned

od and sat turning over the code boo

roper quarters, I think that we should do better to let the matter remain as it is. We don't want to dir

e of the black, morocco-bound code books, A sheet of paper with a few words upon it came flutter

hose handwriting this is? Could it

ed eagerly at the page of manuscript paper. It was numbered "8" at the top, and the few word

me one must find his way, is Kroten, and the telephone number which is all the clue I ha

coding!" Nigel declared. "I wonder whet

ks in vain. Then they returned to their study of the s

etrograd, apparently the centre of a barren, swampy district, population thirty

cried, her finger tracing out a line

oulder and read the entry

3 Clarges Street,