It's pursuit and design.

You know my duties as a spy, an ugly name, perhaps, but one that calls for daring and patriotism.

Hearing of the council held at Zillenstein by Prince Karl of Auersperg I went there to learn what I could of it.

The information that I was able to secure is in the hands of a confederate now on his way to Paris, and I remained to probe into the mystery of Mademoiselle Lannes' disappearance." "Then you learned of the hunting lodge on the mountain ?" "Very quickly.

I discovered, too, that Mademoiselle Lannes and her maid had been taken away by a young chauffeur, coming from somewhere in Lorraine, who had been only a short time at the castle.