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Bella breath

"My God, but this is wonderful!" heis it since you left the Palace?"

"About ten minutes or a quarter of an hour," Dorward answered

"They'll find it out at once," declared the other "They'll iven it to you Don't let us run any risks, Dorward Tear it open Let us know the truth, at any rate If you have to part with the document, we can remember its contents Out with it, man, quick! They may be here at any moment"

Dorward drew a few steps back Then he shook his head

"I guess not," he said firarded his friend in blank and unco aoing to keep it to yourself? You knohat it land?"

"Your old country can look after herself pretty well," Dorward declared "Anyhow, she'll have to take her chance I am not here as a philanthropist I agest thing that's ever come into any man's bands"

Bellamy, with a treoing to do with it?" he asked quickly "I tell you I'ht," Dorward declared "I shall head for England Pearce is there hireatest day of my life when I put this packet in his hand We'll make New York hum, I can promise you, and Europe too"

Bellaether natural His hand was straying towards his pocket

"Dorward," he said, speaking rapidly, and keeping his back to the door, "you don't realize what you're up against This sort of thing is new to you You haven't a dog's chance of leaving Vienna alive with that in your pocket If you trust yourself in the Orient Express to-night, you'll never be allowed to cross the frontier By this ti; they know, too, that you are the only man who could have it, whether the Chancellor has told theood out of it Then we'll go round to the Embassy We can slip out by the back way, perhaps Remember I have spent my life in the service, and I tell you that there's no other place in the city where your life is worth a snap of the fingers but at your Embassy or mine Open the packet, man"