"Oh, no, no, no, no!" cried out Mustushimi; but Nick silenced him, and then again addressing the President, he said:
"The government of Japan has had nothing to do with this affair, sir."
"I have never really supposed that it had," was the calm reply. "We are on too good terms for it to do so."
"Mustushimi is the mere instrument of a political party that is inimical to his own government, and I think he has information which the ambassador would like to possess."
"Then to the ambassador he shall go, Will you undertake to conduct him there, with a letter that I shall give you, Mr. Carter?"
"I certainly will, sir."
"Then do so. I will write the letter at once," and the President seated himself at the table to do so.
"Do not send me there. I will be tortured if you do cried out the baron; but they who listened pretended not to hear, and a half-hour later Nick Carter left the White House again, with Mustushimi beside him, and rode to the Japanese legation. And there he left him.
Before the detective left the White House, the President motioned him aside, and grasping him cordially by the hand, said:
"Mr. Carter, I am under great obligations to you. Good-by."
THE END.