I felt the tides of fever beginning to overflow my brain again, and I made a great attempt to set my affairs straight before I was overtaken.

With difficulty I took out Stumm's pass from my pocket-book.
'That is my warrant,' I said.

'I am a member of the Imperial Secret Service and for the sake of my work I must move in the dark.

If you will permit it, mother, I will sleep till I am better, but no one must know that I am here.

If anyone comes, you must deny my presence.' She looked at the big seal as if it were a talisman.
'Yes, yes,' she said, 'you will have the bed in the garret and be left in peace till you are well.