the notes in Renwick's possession he was either without
design upon them or had concluded to postpone its consummation until
some later hour. Where was the man? Renwick wanted to talk to him. He
heard the sound of a voice in another part of the house, and getting up
went outside and walked around to the rear of the building. A young
woman in Turkish costume was washing some clothing in a tub by the door.

Renwick greeted her with a bow and a smile, and asked for Selim. She
pointed toward a distant field, and then asked if he desired food.
Renwick thanked her and replied that he would wait until Selim returned,
and went back to bed. There, some moments later the woman brought him
coffee, bread, and excellent soup, which the Englishman devoured
hungrily, not aware until the moment that it was precisely food he
required. When he had finished eating, he smoked a cigarette and planned
his pilgrimage.

He had but two known facts with regard to the flight of Captain Goritz
with his prisoner; first, the automobile had gone through the Kastele in
the direction of the Visegrader Gate, over the very road by which
Renwick had come with Selim; second, the object of Captain Goritz was to
reach the German border as speedily as possible.

The fact that Goritz had left town by this road to the north and east
indicated one of two things: that Goritz, seeking the more quietly to
escape from the town, had chosen the road through the Kastele quarter,
intending to make a detour over the mountains and reach the Bosna road,
by which he would go straight through Hungary and Austria to his
destination; the other inference was that Goritz had chosen the more
easterly road to the north in order to avoid passing through Austria,
seeking the shortest road into Silesia, through central Hungary and
Galicia by way of Cracow. It seemed probable that Goritz had already
reached Germany, and yet even this was no assured fact. If Goritz had
chosen to return through Austria by the main traveled roads, by Bosna,
by Agram, or by Budapest, there was scarcely a chance that he could have
eluded the agents of the watchful Windt. The plot against the life of
the Archduke had consummated in his death. Marishka had failed, but with
her failure had come a restitution of her complete rights as an Austrian
citizen. Herr Windt, no longer seeking to restrain her actions, would
wish to save her from the results of her own imprudences, redoubling his
efforts to come betw