They pretty well know what I am going to tell you--that I have been out there at the urgent request of the Secret Service Department of the present Government.

I have been in Greece and Servia and Roumania, and, although I don't think there's a soul in the world knows, I have also been in St.
Petersburg." "But what's it all about ?" Richard persisted.

"What have you been doing in all these places ?" "I can only answer you broadly," Hunterleys went on.

"There is a perfectly devilish scheme afloat, directed against the old country.

I have been doing what I can to counteract it.