Let me tell you plainly I've got the best reasons for being desperate, and if anything happens to you I shall say I did it in sell-defence.

Now, what were you to do in Ostend ?' 'I shall die for this anyhow,' whined Miss Spencer, and then, with a sort of fierce despair, 'I had to keep watch on Prince Eugen.' 'Where?
In this house ?' Miss Spencer nodded, and, looking up, Nella could see the traces of tears in her face.
'Then Prince Eugen was a prisoner?
Some one had captured him at the instigation of Jules ?' 'Yes, if you must have it.' 'Why was it necessary for you specially to come to Ostend ?' 'Oh! Tom trusts me.

You see, I know Ostend.

Before I took that place at the Grand Babylon I had travelled over Europe, and Tom knew that I knew a thing or two.' 'Why did you take the place at the Grand Babylon ?' 'Because Tom told me to.

He said I should be useful to him there.' 'Is your husband an Anarchist, or something of that kind, Miss Spencer ?' 'I don't know.