“No assistance, should you get into this danger you anticipate.”
“You could render none.”
“It is very extraordinary.”
“Your answer?”
“I accept your conditions, of course. But I wish you would give them me at once. We would find means to protect you.”
“Thank you. That is impossible.”
I wrote the letter in the terms I had agreed with Marvyn and handed it to him.
“My name you will see is Denver,” I said.
“Mr. Marvyn, of your Embassy. I know him.”
“Your pledge of secrecy must be kept, or the whole thing falls through. I have arranged that. The slightest breath, and the papers are lost to you.”