If he does not go, if he stays for twenty-four hours in this country, I do not believe that he will live to do you harm.

The men who are with him are not the sort to stop short at trifles.

Besides Streuss and Kahn, they have a regular army of spies at their bidding here.

If they find out that he has tricked them, they will hunt him down, and before long." Louise shivered.
"Oh, I hope," she exclaimed, "that he gets away! He is a traitor, of course, but he is a traitor to a hateful cause, and, after all, I think it is less for the money than for my sake that he does it.
That sounds very conceited, I suppose," she added, with a faint smile.

"Ah! well, you see, for five years so many have been trying to turn my head.