All further investigation must be suspended." Sir Terence trembled, and his eyes turned in eager anxiety upon the inscrutable, stern face of Lord Wellington.
"Must!" cried his lordship sharply.
"What else, my lord, in all our interests ?" exclaimed the Secretary, and he rose in his agitation.
"And what of British justice, sir ?" demanded his lordship in a forbidding tone.
"British justice has reason to consider itself satisfied.

British justice may assume that Count Samoval met his death in the pursuit of his treachery.

He was a spy caught in the act, and there and then destroyed--a very proper fate.

Had he been taken, British justice would have demanded no less.

It has been anticipated.