One of the women was Madame Drovnask, whose husband had been sent to Siberia for life; and the other, Anna Cromer, a rabid Red lecturer, who had been driven from the United States, together with her amiable husband: an assassin of some distinction and many aliases, at present foreman in charge of one of the bridge-building crews on the new railroad.
Every man in the party, and there were eight, for Olga was not a member of the Ten, wore over the lower part of his face a false black beard of huge dimensions.

Not that they were averse to recognition among themselves, but in the fear that by some hook or crook Dangloss or his agents might be able to look in upon them--through stone walls, as it were.

They were not men to belittle the powers of the wonderful Baron.
As it sat in secret conclave, the Committee of Ten was a sinister-looking group.
Brutus was speaking.

"The man is a spy.

He has been brought here from America by Tullis.