That exemption ends now." I was thunderstruck.

I turned to the colonel, the man who had suggested that I seek him out if I needed a friend--the man I had looked to to save me from just such a contingency as this.

But his eyes were quite fishy and unsympathetic.
"Quite correct, Inspector," he said.

"Lock him up!" And as I began to protest he passed very close to me and spoke in a low voice: "Say nothing.

Wait!" I pleaded to be allowed to go back to my rooms, to communicate with my friends, and pay a visit to our consulate and to the Embassy; and at the colonel's suggestion Bray agreed to this somewhat irregular course.