man approached and sat beside him. Renwick needed no second glance to
reassure himself as to the fellow's identity. He was Spivak, Windt's
man, the fellow who had kept guard on the cabin at Konopisht. The
Englishman feared to get up and walk away, for that might attract
attention. So he sat, slouched carelessly, his hat pulled well down over
his eyes, awaiting what seemed to be the inevitable. Spivak--one of
Windt's men sent of course to Zombor, one of the important railway
junctions, to watch all arrivals from the south. Renwick had been ready
with his story when he debarked from the train but there had been a
crowd and he had been in the last carriage. Renwick's mind worked
rapidly, and to an imagination already prescient of disaster, the man
seemed to be inspecting him. As Spivak's chin lifted, Renwick faced him
squarely. Their glances met--and passed. Renwick calmly took out a
cigarette and bending his head forward lighted it coolly, aware that the
man was saying something in Hungarian.

Renwick made a gesture of incomprehension, wondering meanwhile how he
could kill the man on the crowded platform without attracting
observation.

"The train from the south was crowded today," said Spivak in German.

"Crowded? Yes."

"Do you come from Brod or Britzka?"

"From Britzka," said Renwick without hesitation, and then with the
courage of desperation--

"I have seen you before," he went on, calmly puffing at his cigarette.

"I have, I think, the same impression."

"Your name is Spivak--of the Secret Service----"

"You----"

"My name is Carl Moyer."

It was a gambler's chance that Renwick took. If Spivak intimately knew
the man--but he did not and the effrontery disarmed him.

"You are Carl Moyer? I must have seen you," he muttered. "I have been in
Vienna a little--with Herr Windt, but I am of the Hungarian branch. You
have been in Sarajevo?"

"Yes," said Renwick easily following out a wild plan that had come into
his mind. "I have been employed by the Baroness Racowitz to find the
Countess Marishka Strahni."

"Ah, I see. It has come to that!" And then, regarding his companion with
a new interest, "When did you come from Sarajevo?"

"Last night. It is a strange case."

"And you have found a lead?"

"Several----"

"You can do nothing against such a man as Goritz."

"It is Goritz--yes--but I will find her if I have to go through Germany
with a harrow."

"They have not gone to Germany, my friend. Every