You are also arrested." "But, your Excellency, I--" "Enough!" blared the bristly officer.

"You have given shelter to conspirators.

You know the penalty in Finland for that, surely ?" "But these gentlemen are surely not conspirators!" the poor old man protested.

"His Excellency is English, and the English do not plot." "We shall see afterwards," he laughed.

And then, turning to the agent of police at his side, he gave him orders to search the log-hut carefully, an investigation in which one of the men from the outside joined.