BELLAMY IS OUTWITTED Bellamy was a man used to all hazards, whose supreme effort of life it was to meet success and disaster with unvarying mien.

But this was disaster too appalling even for his self-control.

He felt his knees shake so that he caught at the edge of the table before which he was standing.

There was no possible doubt about it, he had been tricked.

Von Behrling, after all,--Von Behrling, whom he had looked upon merely as a stupid, infatuated Austrian, ready to sell his country for the sake of a woman, had fooled him utterly! The man who sat at the head of the table--the only other occupant of the room--was in Court dress, with many orders upon his coat.
He had just been attending a Court function, from which Bellamy's message had summoned him.