The great war in England in 1897 . he Count, casting the newspaper wearily aside, glanced athis watch. Its half-past one, he said. Youll be another half-hour,if not more. After all, I really think, old fellow, Ill go ondown to Hurlingham. I arranged to meet the Vaynes at twooclock. All right. Ill run down in a cab as soon as I can getaway, answered Engleheart. Good. Come on as soon as you can. Violet will beexpecting you, you know. Of course I shall, replied his unsuspicious friend, andthey shook hands, after which the Count put on his hat andsauntered jauntily out. In Parliament Street he jum
The great war in England in 1897 . he Count, casting the newspaper wearily aside, glanced athis watch. Its half-past one, he said. Youll be another half-hour,if not more. After all, I really think, old fellow, Ill go ondown to Hurlingham. I arranged to meet the Vaynes at twooclock. All right. Ill run down in a cab as soon as I can getaway, answered Engleheart. Good. Come on as soon as you can. Violet will beexpecting you, you know. Of course I shall, replied his unsuspicious friend, andthey shook hands, after which the Count put on his hat andsauntered jauntily out. In Parliament Street he jumped into his phaeton, butinstead of driving to Hurlingham gave his man orders to pro-ceed with all speed to the General Post Office, St. Martins-le-Grand. Within half an hour from the time he had shaken thehand of his unsuspecting friend, a message in code—to allintents and purposes a commercial despatch—was on its wayto Herr Brandt, 116 Friedrich Strasse, Berlin. That message contained an exact transcript of the secrettreaty!. 34 The Great War in England in 1897 Almost immediately after the Count had left, Geoffreymade a discovery. From the floor he picked up a small goldpencil-case which he knew belonged to von Beilstein. Engleheart was sorely puzzled to know why the Countshould require a pencil if not to write, and it momentarilyflashed across his mind that he might have copied portions ofthe treaty. But the next minute he dismissed the suspicion asungrounded and preposterous, and placing the pencil in hispocket went in search of Lord Stanbury. It was only the statement he read in the People later,alleging treachery at the Foreign Office, that recalled the in-cident to his mind. Then the horrible truth dawned uponhim. He saw how probable it was that he had been tricked. He knew that the mine was already laid; that the onlything that had prevented an explosion that would shake thewhole world had been the absence of definite knowledge as tothe exact terms of the alliance b
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