CHAPTER XXV

And now Dimny was well enmeshed in the snares of the German _Geheim-polizei_, the vast world organization of treachery on which Germany had expended four million dollars a year in times of peace, “sowing spies” in order to reap skulls. In that huge directory of souls Dimny Parcot’s name and her history were to be entered. The Imperial Government would keep her diary for her, registering her every residence, journey, act. The German people had submitted to that despotic guardianship for generations, and Dimny was no…