in a moment."

While we waited Montani produced a photograph, instantly recognizable as
a likeness of our prisoner.

"My reputation is saved!" he exclaimed excitedly. "That he should have
been caught here! It is too much! I shall never forgive myself for not
warning you of the danger. But you understand, mesdames, that I was
sincerely anxious to recover the fan without letting you know its
importance. When I found at Seattle and Chicago that you were travelling
under assumed names, I was--pray, pardon me--deeply puzzled, the more
so because I had satisfied myself in Tokyo that you were loyal
Englishwomen, and I believed you to be innocent of complicity with
Madame Volkoff. Why you should have changed your names, I didn't know,
but it's not my affair now."

"We saw you on the steamer and again in the hotel at Chicago. It was
very amusing to be followed. We gave you the slip, stopped at Buffalo to
see Niagara, and you came on here and scared the servants to death! But
you were generous at every point," said Alice. "We changed our names so
we could amuse ourselves here--at Bob's expense. So now I ask
everybody's forgiveness!"

The prisoner, arriving at this moment, became the centre of interest.
Without a word Montani walked up to him, brushed back his hair, and
called our attention to a scar on the crown of his head.

"There can be no mistake. This is Adolph Schwenger, who passes as
readily for a Frenchman as I do for an Italian. The capture is of great
importance. I shall want the names of all the persons who assisted in
the matter."

"It isn't quite clear to me," remarked Raynor, turning to me, "why you
held that fellow and said nothing about it. If there had been a mistake,
it would have been just a little embarrassing for you, Singleton."

"Chivalry!" Mrs. Farnsworth answered for me. "An anxious concern for the
peace and dignity of two foolish women! I didn't know there was so much
chivalry left in the world."

An hour was spent in explanations, and Raynor declared that I must write
a full account of the Allied army in Connecticut and the capture of the
spy. The State archives contained nothing that touched this episode for
piquancy, he declared; and even the bewildered Torrence finally saw the
joke of the thing and became quite human.

Raynor and Montani decided after a conference that the German agent
should be taken to New York immediately, and I called Flynn to drive
them down.

"It's most fortunate