eyes to good purpose. In the walk from the lodge to the house and back she had caught sight of the shed in which, obviously, the aeroplane was housed, and had noted its exact position in the extensive grounds. Hurrying back to the hotel she had communicated this information to Jules and both were filled with excitement at the important step forward they had made.

Sitting in the lounge of the “Adlon” next morning Jules had seen Kranzler enter. He had started at once to warn Yvette to “lie low,” but was just too late. Yvette at that moment came down the staircase and before Jules could interpose had met Kranzler face to face. She was instantly recognised.

With a grin of delight on his evil face the big German bowed profoundly.

“This is indeed a pleasure, Mademoiselle Pasquet!” he said ironically.

Yvette very coolly tried to carry it off.

“Monsieur has, I think, made a mistake,” she said in German.

“It’s no use, Mademoiselle,” was the harsh reply, “I know you perfectly. You must come with me—or shall I call the police?”

There was obviously nothing for it but to obey, and Yvette was forced to leave the hotel in the clutches of the one man in all Germany she had the greatest reason to fear.

Jules acted promptly. Slipping out of the hotel he hurriedly wheeled to the front a motor-bicycle he had hired to enable him to travel speedily between Berlin and Spandau. He got round just in time to see Kranzler put Yvette into a taxi, and followed them until they alighted at the door of the house in the Koeniggratzer-strasse which was the head-quarters of the German Secret Service. Yvette was taken inside.

To get the news to Dick was now Jules’ first consideration. Knowing something of the methods of the German Secret Service he was reasonably sure that Yvette would be put through a long examination before she was taken to prison, and he decided to run the risk of being absent for a short time to get his message away. He drove hastily in his car out into the country until he found a tree to which his aerial wire could be attached and got off the brief message which conveyed the news to Verdun. Then he returned to watch, and ascertain where 

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