“There is an end of the thing. I have no use for a man who doubts my word.”
“You forget how grossly I have been deceived already.”
I made no reply, but leant back in my chair, crossed my legs, and shoved my hands into my pockets with a great show of unconcern.
“Where is Miss Drakona?” I took no notice. “Can you communicate with her?” I took a paper from my pocket and began to read it. “If I agree, when will you leave Warsaw?” I made a pencil note on the paper, folded it up and put it away with a sigh of weariness.
“I did not mean to doubt your word. I retract what I said.”
“That’s another matter. We can resume. Provided you keep faith with me throughout. Then, as soon as Madame Drakona is free and you have handed me the evidence against her and satisfied me that the charge against her daughter is settled, I will go by the next train?”
“On your word of honour?”
“On my word of honour.”
He thought for a moment. “You can arrange to leave to-morrow night. There will be certain formalities to settle of course. I will see to them to-morrow. Come to my private house to-morrow at six o’clock and I shall be prepared with everything. Are you still with General von Eckerstein?”
“No. I shall stay to-night at the Hotel Vladimir.”