"She nearly drove me mad by those fearful ordeals which, in a hundred ways, she put upon me--always promising to release me if I would but reveal details of what we had discovered. But I refused--refused always, Claude--because I knew that she was an enemy, and victory must be ours if I remained silent. Days--those terrible days--passed--so many that I lost count of them--yet I knew that the woman with the cruel eyes of a leopard had dosed me with some drug that sapped my senses, and she held me irrevocably in her power, prompted no doubt by somebody who meant to work evil also upon you. In the end I must have lost my reason. I think she must have given me certain drugs in order to confuse me as to the past. Then, one day, I found myself in the town of Grantham, inquiring for the station. I was in a maid's clothes, and in them I eventually returned to you. And you--Claude--you know all the rest." And she burst into a torrent of tears. "Yes," I said slowly. "And that blackguard Lionel Eastwell is the man who has directed all this intricate and dastardly intrigue against us." Then I took my love into my arms, and pressing her to me, soothed her tears with my passionate kisses. What she had revealed to me amazed me. In the evening, just after the Sunday-night supper, Benton, the fat old butler, entered the drawing-room and, approaching me, said: "Mr Moncrieff is on the telephone, sir." I sprang up with alacrity and, a few seconds later, spoke to my friend at the listening-post. "You there, Munro?" he asked. "We've just had a message to say that three Zeppelins are crossing the North Sea in the direction of the Norfolk coast." "Right!" I said, and shut off at once. There was no time to lose. In a moment I told them of the alarm. Without much delay Teddy and I slipped into our air-kit, while Theed, with the machine wheeled out into the park, reported that all was in readiness. I met Roseye in the corridor above the central staircase of the great old-world house, and there kissed her fondly. "For your dear sake I go, and for the sake of my King and country!" I whispered. "Good-bye, my darling. Keep a stout heart until you hear of me again!" "But--oh!--oh!--I fear, Claude!" she cried anxiously, clinging to me. "No, my darling. We must, to-day, all make sacrifices. There must be no fear. I shall be back with you to-morrow." And then again I kissed her and disengaged those loving, clinging arms about me. Five minutes later Teddy and I were away in the air. The night was dull and overcast with a promise of clearing--yet bitterly cold. Of course with our big engine roaring we could hear nothing of the enemy's approach, but I deemed it wise to rise high and, at the same time, to follow the railway line from Colchester towards London, because that, no doubt, was the route which the airships would follow.