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Meanwhile the forces arrayed against the conspirators now back in Berlin were not idle. True, Jelicorse was playing the leading role, but Enderby and Farncombe were not idle. The Councillors were the various parts of a perfect machine, each of which fitted into its proper groove and worked silently without interfering with the rest of the apparatus. There was much for both Enderby and Jelicorse to do in the capital, where they had the full weight of the secret service of the Republic behind them, it was a critical time for the German Government, beset as it was by difficulties and dangers on every side and hardly knowing whom to trust.
The murderous vendetta directed against so many prominent republicans had excited the gravest alarm, and even the police seemed impotent to cope with the danger. It was even possible that the police were hand in glove with the very gang they were out to destroy. Had they also been bitten with the virus of renewed Prussianism? Were they in the conspiracy to make the Russo-German treaty a military one?