You have even now about you a valet of whom you know nothing." "Morel was recommended to me by one of my most intimate friends--Sir Richard Wakefield." "But for all that I have had my suspicions of him; but we will talk of this later, and we will now return to the subject upon which we have met.

As I told you, I conceal the immense power I had attained through our agency, and use it as occasion presents itself, and after twenty years' patient labor, I am about to reap a stupendous harvest.

The police pay enormous sums to their secret agents, while I, without opening my purse, have an army of devoted adherents.

I see perhaps fifty servants of both sexes daily; calculate what this will amount to in a year." There was an air of complacency about the man as he explained the working of his system, and a ring of triumph in his voice.
"You must not think that all my agents are in my secrets, for the greater part of them are quite unaware of what they are doing, and in this lies my strength.

Each of them brings me a slender thread, which I twine into the mighty cord by which I hold my slaves.