.

BEING OF COMPLICATIONS NOT RECKONED ON.
Maurice leaped to his feet, a menace in his eyes.

The Colonel crossed his legs, rested his hands on the hilt of his saber, and smiled.
"I could not resist the desire to have a friendly chat with you." "You have come cursed inopportune," snarled Maurice.

"What do you want ?" "I want to give you the countersigns, so that when you start for Bleiberg to-morrow morning you'll have no trouble." "Bleiberg!" exclaimed Maurice.
"Bleiberg.

Madame desires me to say to you that you are to start for that city in the morning, to fetch those slips of parchment which have caused us all these years of worry.