A police officer, who has since been transferred to Odessa, was of the opinion that the dead man was a foreigner.

There are about twelve thousand foreigners in Tver--operatives in the manufactories.

Your husband--Sydney Bamborough, bien entendu--left Tver to proceed eastward and cross Siberia to China in order to avoid the emissaries of the Charity League, who were looking out for him at the western frontier.

He will be due at one of the treaty ports in China in about a month.

Upon the supposition that the body discovered on the plains of Tver was that of your husband, you took the opportunity of becoming a princess.