They are driving her mad." "I will do my best," he answered, but shaking his head dubiously.

"But you must recollect that Baron Oberg is Governor-General of Finland, with all the powers of the Czar himself." "And if Elma Heath again falls into his unscrupulous hands, she will die," I declared.
"Ah!" he sighed, looking me straight in the face, "I fear that what you say is only too true.

She evidently holds some secret which he fears she will reveal.

He wishes to rearrest her in order--well--" he added in a low tone, "in order to close her lips.

It would not be the first time that persons have been silenced in secret at Kajana.