At the commencement of our conversation, I managed to impress him with the idea that I spoke no German.

At one of the stations on the line he was joined by a Belgian, his agent, as he told me, in Brussels for the sale of his crockery.

I overheard this agent, whose name was Meyer, recount to his principal his recent operations.

He offered him an exact plan of the forts of Liege.

I heard him instructed to procure a list of the wealthy inhabitants of Ghent and the rateable value of the city, and I heard him commissioned to purchase land in the neighbourhood of Antwerp for a secret purpose." Mr.Hebblethwaite's eyebrows became slowly upraised.