“Then how could you escape this afternoon?”
“Inez and Dr. Barosa have arranged that. We shall go in disguise, of course.”
“Who told you that the plot had been discovered?”
“Do you think they do not know that? M. Dagara sent them warning last night, and told them the names of those who are to be arrested.”
“Everything you tell me only confirms what I say to you—that these lies have been coined in order to frighten you. M. Dagara is not in Lisbon. He left yesterday evening. I gave him money to take him and his wife to Paris. He did not even know that the abduction had been planned; and he left the city before he could hear of its failure.”
She shook her head. “I know you think that—but I have the list of names.”
“Will you show it me?”
She took it out of the bosom of her dress and handed it me.
“The trick is obvious,” I said with a smile. “It is not his handwriting.”
“Inez made a copy for me.”