No one knew of his coming till he came to Fiume, whence he sent a guarded message to the Archbishop, which the latter alone would understand.

But this Turkish agents were evidently on his track all the time, and doubtless the Bureau of Spies was kept well advised.

He landed at Ilsin from a coasting steamer from Ragusa to the Levant.
For two days before his coming there had been quite an unusual number of arrivals at the little port, at which arrivals are rare.

And it turned out that the little hotel--the only fairly good one in Ilsin--was almost filled up.

Indeed, only one room was left, which the Voivode took for the night.