This country swarms with foreign secret-service men.

What they are planning against us, Heaven knows!" "Heaven and Naida Karetsky," Chalmers intervened softly.
"You believe that she is our enemy ?" Nigel asked, with a look of trouble in his eyes.
"She is Immelan's friend," Chalmers reminded him.
"There was a man named Atcheson," Jesson began quietly-- Nigel nodded.
"He was one of the men my uncle sent out.

The first one was stabbed in Petrograd.

Jim Atcheson was poisoned and died in Berlin." "There was rather a scare in a certain quarter about Atcheson," Jesson observed.

"He was supposed to have got a report through to the late Lord Dorminster." "He got it through all right," Nigel replied.