How is it they are not already at the Embassy ?" "The Ambassador was commanded to Cowes," she explained.

"He cannot be back until late to-night.

No one else has a key to the treaty safe, and Von Behrling declined to give up the document to any one save the Ambassador himself." Bellamy nodded.
"What about Streuss ?" "Streuss and the others are all furious," Louise said.

"Yet, after all, Behrling has a certain measure of right on his side.

His orders were to see with his own eyes this envelope deposited in the safe by the Ambassador himself." "He returns to-night!" Bellamy exclaimed quickly.
She nodded.
"Before he comes," she declared, "I think that the document will be in your hands." "How is it to be done ?" "The report is written," she explained, "on five pages of foolscap.
They are contained in a long envelope, scaled with the Chancellor's crest.