I want you to take passage by that same train and secure a compartment near the messenger, if possible.

This messenger will be a man in whom the respective parties to the negotiation have implicit confidence.

I wish I knew his name, but I don't; still, the chances are that he is leaving London for St.
Petersburg about this time, and so you might keep your eyes open on your journey there, for, if you discovered him to be your fellow-passenger, it might perhaps make the business that comes after easier.

You see this letter," continued the editor, taking from a drawer in his desk a large envelope, the flap of which was secured by a great piece of stamped sealing-wax.

"This merely contains a humble ordinary copy of to-day's issue of the _Bugle_, but in outside appearance it might be taken for a duplicate of the letter which is to leave St.Petersburg on the 21st.
Now, what I would like you to do is to take this envelope in your hand-bag, and if, on the journey back to London, you have an opportunity of securing the real letter, and leaving this in its place, you will have accomplished the greatest service you have yet done for the paper." "Oh!" cried Jennie, rising, "I couldn't think of that, Mr.Hardwick--I couldn't _think_ of doing it.