They have sent me to learn, if possible, the cause of the explosion I spoke of.

I took some of the _debris_ to Herr Feltz to analyze it, and he said he had never seen gold, iron, feldspar, and all that, reduced to such fine, impalpable grains as was the case with the sample I left with him.

I then asked him who in Vienna knew most about explosives, and he gave me your address.

That is why I am here." "But the explosion--you have not told me when and where it occurred!" "That, as I have said, is a Government secret." "But you stated you are not in the Government employ, therefore it can be no breach of confidence if you let me have full particulars." "I suppose not.

Very well, then, the explosion occurred after midnight on the seventeenth in the vault of the Treasury." The old man, in spite of the prohibition, rose uncertainly to his feet.
Jennie sprang up and said menacingly, "Stay where you are!" "I am not going to touch you.