“What is she like?” asked the general.
“You know when she attacked me I saw her only in the dusk. She was then dressed as a lady. But that probably was only a disguise. Freeman can tell you about her.”
“But I don’t see why her case could not have waited till morning.”
“Her case is not all. I have learned the identity of Borodin.”
“Well?”
“He is Borski.”
The general’s red figure sprang up. “What! The leader of the South Russian revolt!”
“Yes. The revolutionists confessed it to Freeman.”
The general rang sharply. “Show in the two men who are waiting,” he said to the servant.
A minute later Freeman and the captain entered. The latter, having the least to say, was first examined. He testified to the identity of the arrested girl and was dismissed. The general then turned to Freeman, and Berloff slipped back in his chair, withdrawing as it were from the affair.