“Yet my words speak my meaning.”
“From whom do you come?”
“On my own initiative.”
“Where are the papers?” and his eyes shot at me as if to pierce to my pockets.
“They are in perfectly safe keeping.”
“What is it you wish?”
“I am in some personal danger—possibly great danger—and if anything should befall me, I intend those papers to come to you.”
He saw my meaning in a flash.
“You intend to use that as a means to restrain those who threaten you?”
“Exactly.” There was no change in his expression but I read his silence, and added: “You can get them in no other way.”