"We received your wire yesterday, and the department's agents at once went to work."
"Is there any result?"
"Nothing marked."
"But surely they have located the girl?"
"Oh, yes, of course. She did not make the slightest attempt to hide. As soon as she arrived in the city she went to the Tillinghast and placed her own name upon the register. And since arriving there she has not once gone out."
"Any visitors?"
"No. But about noon a message arrived for her. And our man recognized the messenger as one connected with, curiously enough—the German Embassy."
"The German Embassy!"
A peculiar expression came into the face of Ashton-Kirk. He sat looking at the secretary for a moment; and then the latter saw a slow smile gradually creep about his mouth. He took a note-book from his pocket, and glanced at some memoranda.
"Of course," said he, after a moment, "you have the names and biographies of the various persons attached to the foreign embassies?"