He made up his mind then promptly.
“Your terms?”
“I ask little except absolute secrecy about myself. If you consent, I shall leave with you a letter to those who will upon receipt of it hand you documents which will tell you precisely where and how to get the papers you wish, and will be a full authority to secure their being handed to you. There are two sets of documents. One is for your use: the other you must give me a pledge to have placed in the hands of the Czar himself.”
I did not tell him he would get the papers themselves from Marvyn, nor that they were actually at the American Embassy.
“If that is all why not give them me at once?”
“You will only present the letter I shall give you under certain conditions.”
“Those are?”
“That on any day you fail either to see me or hear from me by noon.”
“You ask nothing from us?”
“Nothing more than I have said.”