"I have only come to thank you for your kindness in this matter.

Truth to tell, I have been somewhat surprised that you should have interested yourself on my behalf," I added, looking straight at the uniformed official.
"It was not on yours, but on hers," he answered, somewhat enigmatically.
"I know something of the affair, but it was my duty as a man to help the poor girl to escape from that terrible place.

She has, I know, been unjustly condemned for the attempted assassination of the wife of a General--condemned with a purpose, of course.

Such a thing is not unusual in Finland." "Abominable!" I cried.

"Oberg is a veritable fiend." But the man only shrugged his shoulders, saying-- "The orders of his Excellency the Governor-General have to be obeyed, whatever they are.