Heideck smiled.
“Will you be good enough to tell me, then, M. Penurot, with whom I am to class you?”
“I am willing from this moment to devote all my energies to the cause of the allies.”
“Granted. But what are your wishes in the matter of reward?”
“I should like you to use your influence to obtain me the honour of an order.”
Heideck was unable to conceal his astonishment at this strange request.
“Such distinctions are, as a rule, only given in Germany for acts of bravery or for services which cannot be adequately requited in hard cash.”
“What I am willing to do requires bravery.”
“You are only going to help me to find out the spies in Antwerp.”
“But they are dangerous people to make enemies of—people whose tools would be capable of anything.”