"Will you look at the pictures in these papers, Frau
Bauer? I have to go upstairs for something. I shall
not be gone for more than two or three minutes." He
opened wide a sheet showing the Kaiser presiding at
fire drill on board his yacht.

Then, leaving his visitor quite happy, he hurried upstairs,
and going into his bedroom, locked the door and
turned on the electric light. With one of the twin tiny
keys he always carried on his watch-chain he opened
his safe, and in a very few moments had found what
he wanted. Polly would indeed have been surprised
had she seen what it was. From the back of the pile
of letters she had never disturbed, he drew out a shabby
little black book. It was a book of addresses written
in alphabetical order, and there were the names of people,
and of places, all over the Continent. This little
book had been forwarded, registered, by one of its
present possessor's business friends in Holland some
ten days ago, together with a covering letter explaining
the value, in a grocery business, of these addresses.
Mr. Hegner was not yet familiar with its contents, but
he found fairly quickly the address he wanted -- that of
a Spanish merchant at Seville.

Taking out the block, which he always carried about
with him, from his pocket, he carefully copied on it
the address in question. Then he turned over the thin
pages of the little black book till he came to another
address. This time it was the name of a Frenchman,
Jules Boutet, who lived in the Haute Ville, Boulogne.
He put this name down, too, but he did not trouble
about Boutet's address. Finally he placed the book
back in the safe, among the private papers which Polly
never disturbed. Then, tearing off the top sheet of the

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