Everything was left in perfect order, but there was no letter, no word
of explanation. He questioned the crew, and heard that she had been
rowed to shore by two of them soon after he left. She had given the
men orders not to wait, but to return at once to the yacht. For a week
Vladimir hunted through street and slum. At the end of that time he
knew that alive or dead he would never see Pauline Souvaroff again.
The missive he had brought her from Sobrenski had probably meant a
journey for her to one of the great centres of the movement--Amsterdam,
Geneva, or perhaps even London.
Alphonse of Spain was now in England, having escaped two attempts upon
his life in Paris, and in his own capital. His every moment would be
watched and noted by the destroyers of monarchy. Probably she had been
chosen to obtain information, because women made better spies than men,
and their movements were not so likely to be noticed by the police.
Many a high official whose name was on the list of those condemned to
death by a revolutionary tribunal had been tracked from city to city by
female agents.
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