Now, Mr.Fenn, I am going to ask you a question.

You led us to believe, this evening, that, although all letters had been destroyed, you were in constant communication with Freistner.

When did you hear from him last--personally, I mean ?" "Last week," Fenn answered boldly, "and the week before that." "And you have destroyed those letters ?" "Of course I have! Why should I keep stuff about that would hang me ?" "You cannot produce, then, any communication from Freistner, except the proposals of peace, written within the last--say--month ?" "What the mischief are you getting at ?" Fenn demanded hotly.

"And what right have you to stand there and cross-question me ?" "The right of being prepared to call you to your face a liar," Julian said gravely.

"We have very certain information that Freistner is now imprisoned in a German fortress and will be shot before the week is out." There was a little murmur of consternation, even of disbelief.