easily as all that, you are very much
mistaken."

"Well, I want to tell you why I did not allow you to resign."

Slowly she undid the large buttons of her jacket, then, taking it by
the lapel and holding it so that no one else could see, she drew partly
forth from the inside pocket the large envelope, until the stamp of the
Embassy was plainly visible. Lord Donal's eyes opened to their widest
capacity, and his breath seemed to stop.

"Great heavens!" he gasped at last, "do you mean to say _you_ have it?"

"Yes," she said, buttoning up her jacket again. "I robbed the robbers.
Listen, and I will tell you all that happened. But, first, are you
armed?"

"Yes," he replied, "I have a trumpery revolver in my pocket; little good
it did me last night."

"Very well, we shall be across the frontier by noon to-day. If the
Russian authorities find before that time how they have been checkmated,
and if they have any suspicion that I am the cause of it, is it not
likely that they will have me stopped and searched on some pretence or
other?" Lord Donal pondered for a moment. "They are quite capable of
it," he said; "but, Jennie, I will fight for you against the whole
Russian Empire, and somebody will get hurt if you are meddled with. The
police will hesitate, however, before interfering with a messenger from
the Embassy, or anyone in his charge in broad daylight on a crowded
train. We will not go back into that car, but stay here, where some of
our fellow-countrymen are."

"That is what I was going to propose," said Jennie. "And now listen to
the story I have to tell you, and then you will know exactly why I came
to Russia."

"Don't tell me anything you would rather not," said the young man
hurriedly.

"I would rather not, but it must be told," answered the girl.

The story lasted a long time, and when it was ended the young man cried
enthusiastically in answer to her question,--

"Blame you? Why, of course I don't blame you in the slightest. It wasn't
Hardwick who sent you here at all, but Providence. Providence brought us
together, Jennie, and my belief in it hereafter will be unshaken."

Jennie laughed a contented little laugh, and said she was flattered at
being considered an envoy of Providence.

"It is only another way of saying you are an angel, Jennie," remarked
the bold young man.

They crossed the frontier without interference, and, once in Germany,
Jennie took the object of so much contention and placed it