That is why they cast their nets as wide as mankind." She shivered, and for a second her face wore a look which Dickson never forgot, the look of one who has looked over the edge of life into the outer dark.
"There were certain jewels of great price which were about to be turned into guns and armies for our enemies.

These our people recovered, and the charge of them was laid on me.

Who would suspect, they said, a foolish girl?
But our enemies were very clever, and soon the hunt was cried against me.

They tried to rob me of them, but they failed, for I too had become clever.

Then they asked for the help of the law--first in Italy and then in France.