distant view of a policeman's
helmet."

"This," she remarked, with a little satisfied sigh as she selected an
ortolan, "is a very satisfactory place to be carried off to. And you,"
she added, leaning across the table and touching his fingers for a
moment tenderly, "are a very delightful knight-errant."

He raised the fingers to his lips--the waiter had left the room. She
blushed, but yielded her hand readily enough.

"Victor," she murmured, "you would spoil the most faithless woman on
earth for all her lovers. You make me very impatient."

"Impatience, then," he declared, "must be the most infectious of fevers.
For I too am a terrible sufferer."

"If only the Prince," she said, "would be reasonable."

"I am afraid," Mr. Sabin answered, "that from him we have not much to
hope for."

"Yet," she continued, "I have fulfilled all the conditions. Reginald
Brott remains the enemy of our cause and Order. Yet some say that his
influence upon the people is lessened. In any case, my work is over.
He began to mistrust me long ago. To-day I believe that mistrust is the
only feeling he has in connection with me. I shall demand my release."

"I am afraid," Mr. Sabin said, "that Saxe Leinitzer has other reasons
for keeping you at Dorset House."

She shrugged her shoulders.

"He has been very persistent even before I left Vienna. But he must know
that it is hopeless. I have never encouraged him."

"I am sure of it," Mr. Sabin said. "It is the incorrigible vanity of
the man which will not be denied. He has been taught to believe himself
irresistible. I have never doubted you for a single moment, Lucille. I
could not. But you have been the slave of these people long enough.
As you say, your task is over. Its failure was always certain. Brott
believes in his destiny, and it will be no slight thing which will keep
him from following it. They must give you back to me."

"We will go back to America," she said. "I have never been so happy as
at Lenox."

"Nor I," Mr. Sahin said softly.

"Besides," she continued, "the times have changed since I joined the
Society. In Hungary you know how things were. The Socialists were
carrying all before them, a united solid body. The aristocracy were
forced to enter into some sort of combination against them. We saved
Austria, I am not sure that we did not save Russia. But England is
different. The aristocracy here are a strong resident class. They have
their House of Lords, they own the lan