“Andreas! O Andreas! If I could sleep, or thou couldst never wake!”
She crept away, and the better to secure me locked both the bedroom doors herself, and carried off the keys.
On her return, two hours later, Sophia, with a look that told the watchful Fauchette of her uneasiness, hurried straight up-stairs, toward the door of the little oratory.
She found it locked from the outside, with the key in the door.
It had cost me something to break my pledge to the Princess Y—— that I would give her my new address before leaving her.
But her unfortunate discovery of the portrait I wore around my neck and her plainly-declared intention to hold me a prisoner till she could shake my fidelity, had rendered it necessary for me to meet treachery with treachery.
The secret service, it must always be borne in mind, has its own code of honor, differing on many points from that obtaining in other careers, but perhaps stricter on the whole.
For instance, I can lay my hand on my heart and declare that I have never done either of two things which are done every day by men holding high offices and high places in the world’s esteem. I have never taken a secret commission. And I have never taken advantage of my political information to gamble in stocks.
The manner of my escape was simplicity itself.