Aid me, and I will aid you.

Yes, Herr Major, it is one potentate speaking with another," the singular woman went on with sinister pride, and trying to draw her shrunken form into straightness; "I rule an army of my own, camped by cohorts in the capitals of Europe--dating farther back than your own, and, perhaps, as formidable.

It is we who spy out the weak spots in great cities.

The next time, we shall swarm into the doomed city in a mass and we shall devour its wealth and luxuries until we are gorged.

But for the day, it will be glut enough for me to have the life's blood of this man.