Seven dots, seven times repeated, clicked out strong and dear!

Surely seconds had never passed so slowly! It seemed an age before Captain Le Couteur, his face white as chalk, took down the message which followed, and then referring to the code, read:

“Yvette arrested this morning by Kranzler.”

Dick turned dizzy and the room spun round him as the dreadful significance of the words struck him. Kranzler, of all men! The murderer of Yvette’s father and mother, the man whom she had beaten over and over again at his own game of espionage during the war, the man whose sensational attempt to dispose of Rasputin’s stolen jewels had been foiled by Yvette’s skill and daring! He was, as they knew, a desperate brute who would stick at nothing to feed his revenge.

Dick was rushing from the room, determined at all hazards to leave for Berlin at once, when Le Couteur seized his arm in a grip of iron.

“Steady, Manton,” he said sharply. “Don’t be a fool. You’ll spoil everything. Sit down and wait for more news.”

The words brought Dick to his senses.

“I’m sorry, Le Couteur,” he said, “but I think I went a bit mad. You are quite right. But Kranzler—of all men! You know the story, of course?”

Le Couteur nodded.

“It could hardly be worse,” he admitted, “and there’s no use disguising the fact. But we must wait for more from Jules. In the meantime I am going to talk to Regnier. He must have more men on the spot. At all costs Mademoiselle must be rescued.”

They were soon in touch with the Chief in Paris, who was horrified at the news.

“I will get some more men over at once,” he said. “But we can do nothing until we find out where they have taken her. Jules will realise that. You are certain to get another message from him before long.”

It was not until later that day that they learned how the arrest had been effected. Yvette, as soon as the position of the German plane had been located, had managed in the guise of a girl seeking work, to scrape acquaintance with one of the maids employed at the big house where the aeroplane was lodged. The girl had actually taken her up to the house and Yvette had coolly applied to the housekeeper for employment. There was, as it happened, no vacancy, but Yvette had used her 

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