s put in the door and it opened, admitting a big, dark man with
a long, black beard; he bore in his hands a small table which he placed
in the middle of the room.

"Now," I said to myself, "this means breakfast."

I was mistaken.

He brought in next a square box, not unlike the case of a sewing
machine, and placed it on the table.

"What can this be?" I muttered as I watched him closely.

In a few minutes footsteps were heard on the stairs, and another man
joined him. A great strong fellow with a fair moustache. The two of
them wheeled a large chair with glass arms to it, which I had not
noticed before, from one corner of the room, and placed it on one side
of the table.

The preparations now had all the appearance of the commencement of some
performance; it only needed the principal actor to appear.

He was not long in coming.

Meanwhile, I wondered why the chair had glass arms to it.

I noticed that the two men, who now stood idly looking out of the
windows, did not wear uniforms. They were dressed in ordinary
rough-looking clothes of foreign cut; it struck me as very strange. I
asked them who they were.

"Are you the warders of the prison?" I said.

"Hein!" the dark one inquired.

"Are you the warders of the prison?" I repeated.

"Find out, _verdammt Englander_," the man replied.

Then I felt certain I was in no English prison. Where was I?

The question was soon answered, the door once more opened and
_Saumarez_ entered. I sat up on the bed and fairly gasped; the whole
matter was perfectly unintelligible to me. After the first thrill of
astonishment my glance went to his eyes.

They were complete; he had another glass one in the socket, and it
exactly matched the real one.

He came towards me with a little bow, and a smile on his red
countenance.

"Good morning, Mr. Anstruther," he began, "we seem to be always
meeting."

I could not restrain my feelings.

"That is my misfortune," I answered.

He smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

"Perhaps so," he answered casually, "that remains to be seen."

He said some words in German to the two men, which I imperfectly
understood, but it seemed to be an order to lift me off the bed, for
they immediately did it.

Then one of them unlocked my chain, and the two of them carried me to
the chair, and sat me in it.

I now realised that I was in a desperate condition.

"I insist on knowing," I cried to Saumarez, "why I was brought here.
It is