They court-martialed one of the non-commissioned officers for helping him get an admission to the fortress, but the officer shot himself, and Pobloff had the plates spirited away, so the case fell through.

Now he's got duplicates of every Upper Gallery and every new fortification of the Rock at Gibraltar." "But why waste time over these things ?" "Pobloff got them through an English officer's wife.

She was weak--and worse--she lost her head over him.

I can't tell you more now.

But there is an order for five hundred pounds waiting for me at the British Embassy, in Rome, from the Foreign Office, if I secure those papers!" "That's twenty-five hundred dollars ?" "Yes, almost." "And I was on the point of crawling away with a few napoleons!" said Durkin in a whisper.