To carry out this programme, the first step would, of course, be to secure knowledge of the number, location, manner of the secret defences of France--the plans of fortification, the maps of the 'danger zone,' the documentary evidence of her strongest and weakest points--and who so likely to be the guardian of these as the Baron de Carjorac?
That is how I know that 'The Red Crawl' was after something of vital importance to German interests, Miss Lorne.

That he got it, I know from the fact that the baron, while hinting at disgrace and speaking of peril to his own life, dared not confide in the French authorities and ask the assistance of the French police.

Moreover, if 'The Red Crawl' had failed to secure anything, the baron, with his congenital loathing of all crawling things, would have left the Chateau Larouge immediately." "Oh, to think that you guessed it so easily--and it was all such a puzzle to me.

I could not think, Mr.Cleek, why he did remain--why he would not be persuaded to go, although every night was adding to the horror of the thing and it seemed clear to me that he was going mad.

Of course, Madame la Comtesse and her brother tried to reason him out of what he declared, tried to make him believe that it was all fancy--that he did not really see the fearful thing; it was equally in vain that I myself tried to persuade him to leave the place before his reason became unsettled.