I'll give it to no one but Clodoche--and not even to him until he gives the secret sign.' And then, Mr.Cleek, as she closed the trap I heard the man call back to her 'Good night' and give her a name I had not heard before.

We had always supposed that she had been christened 'Suzanne,' but as that man left he called her--" "I know before you tell me--'Margot'!" interjected Cleek.

"I guessed the identity of this 'Countess de la Tour' from the moment you spoke of Clodoche and that secret trap.

Her knowledge of those two betrayed her to me.

Clodoche is a renegade Alsatian, a spy in the pay of the German Government, and an old _habitue_ of 'The Inn of the Twisted Arm,' where the Queen of the Apaches and her pals hold their frequent revels.