But Davilo has already been arrested as her murderer, on the ground that he was heard before sunrise this morning to say that she must die." "Who heard that must have heard more.

Let this news be quickly known to whom it concerns." I checked the carriage instantly, and turned into a road that conducted us in ten minutes to a public telegraph office.
"Come with me," I said, "quickly.

As an officer of the Campta your presence may ensure the delivery of letters which might otherwise be stopped." He seized the hint at once, and as we approached a vacant desk he said to the nearest officer, "In the Campta's name;" a form which ensured that the most audacious and curious spy, backed by the highest authority save that invoked, dared neither stop nor search into a message so warranted.

Before I left the desk every Chief of the Zinta at his several post had received, through that strange symbolic language of which I have already given samples, from me advice of what had occurred and from Esmo warning to meet at an appointed place and time.
The day at whose close we should meet was that of Davilo's trial.

I mingled with the crowd around the Court doors, a crowd manifesting bitter hostility to the prisoner and to the Order, of whose secrets a revelation was eagerly expected.