ndia I made the acquaintance of a German officer who rendered
me great service during the terrible times of the war and saved my
life more than once. He travelled with the Kennedys and myself on the
Caledonia to Naples. From there he went on to Berlin, while we
continued our voyage on a man-of-war through the Straits of Gibraltar to
Southampton. This officer is a Captain Heideck of the Prussian General
Staff. I should be thankful to you if you would find out where he is at
present. I am very anxious to know his address. For a time I am staying
in Dover. Letters addressed to Mrs. Jones, 7, St. Paul's Street, will
reach me."

The perusal of this letter revived a crowd of painful recollections in
Heideck's mind. He never doubted for a moment that the postscript, in
which his name occurred, explained Edith's real object in writing. All
the rest was certainly a mere pretext; for he knew how indifferent Edith
was in regard to money matters, and was convinced that she was in no
such hurry about the settlement of the inheritance as might have been
thought from her letter.

The Lieutenant-Colonel approached him at this moment.

"It has taken less time to decipher the document than I had ventured to
hope," said he. "I have telegraphed at once to the police at Schleswig
to arrest the writer, one Brodersen, without delay. Please convince
yourself what sort of friends we have amongst the Danes."

Heideck read as follows:--

"In the harbour of Kiel, the larger warships are the battleships
Oldenburg, Baden, Wurttemberg, Bayern, Sachsen; the large cruisers
Kaiser, Deutschland, Konig Wilhelm; the small cruisers Gazelle, Prinzess
Wilhelm, Irene, Komet, and Meteor, with the torpedo division boats D 5
and D 6 with their divisions. In addition, there are about 100 large and
small steamers of the North-German Lloyd, the Hamburg-America Line, the
Stettin Company, and others. All the large steamers are equipped with
quick-firing cannon and machine-guns; the small, only with machine-guns.
In the neighbourhood of Kiel there are 50,000 infantry and artillery
from Hanover, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, and the province of Saxony, with
only two regiments of hussars. My friends' opinions differ as to the
plans of the German Government. Possibly ships of the line will proceed
through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal and make a combined attack with the
Russian fleet on the British near Copenhagen.

"It is most probable that the fleet of transports will take