At present she was passing for a citizen of a South American republic.

The doctor had arranged all the papers necessary to enable her to cross the frontier.
"But here," she continued, "my accomplices have me more securely than as though I were in prison.

They have given me the means of coming here and they only can arrange my departure.

I am absolutely in their power.
I wonder what they are going to do with me!..." At certain times terror had suggested most desperate expedients to her.
She had thought of denouncing herself, of appearing before the French authorities, telling them her story and acquainting them with the secrets which she possessed.

But her past filled her with terror, so many were the evils which she had brought against this country.