COMBE'S LIE 121

XVIII. "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?" 129

XIX. A HILLSIDE ENCOUNTER 137

XX. MR. FIELDING IN A NEW ROLE 143

XXI. A WOMAN'S CRY 151

XXII. LORD RUNTON IS SUSPICIOUS 160

XXIII. HER FIRST KISS 171

XXIV. THE EMPTY ROOM 179

BOOK II

I. GUY POYNTON AGAIN 185

II. AN OLD STORY 192

III. A BODY FROM THE SEINE 200

IV. THE INSOLENCE OF MADAME LA MARQUISE 208

V. THE INTERVIEWING OF PHYLLIS 217

VI. THE BLUNDERING OF ANDREW 225

VII. SPENCER GETS HIS CHANCE 234

VIII. A POLITICAL INTERLUDE 243

IX. ARRESTED! 251

X. THE CHECKMATING OF MONSIEUR LOUIS 259

XI. THE MAKING OF HISTORY 267

XII. AN OLD FRIEND 276

XIII. A NEWSPAPER SENSATION 285

XIV. THE MAN WHO SAVED HIS COUNTRY 294

XV. A MERRY MEETING 301

A MAKER OF HISTORY

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

AN ACCIDENTAL SPY

The boy sat up and rubbed his eyes. He was stiff, footsore, and a little
chilly. There was no man-servant arranging his bath and clothes, no
pleasant smell of coffee--none of the small luxuries to which he was
accustomed. On the contrary, he had slept all night upon a bed of
bracken, with no other covering than the stiff pine needles from the
tall black trees, whose rustling music had lulled him to sleep.

He sat up, and remembered suddenly where he was and how he had come
there. He yawned, and was on the point of struggling to his feet when he
became aware of certain changed conditions in his surroundings. Some
instinct, of simple curiosity perhaps, but of far-reaching effect, led
him to crawl back into his hiding-place and watch.

Last night, after many hours of painful walking, two things alone had
impressed themselves upon his consciousness: the dark illimitable forest
and the double line of rails, which with the absolute straightness of
exact science had stretched behind and in front till the tree-tops in
the far distance seemed to touch, and the rails themselves to vanish
into the black heart of the close-growing pines. For miles h