“Does Mr. Marvyn know?”
“Mr. Marvyn knows no more about them than the secretary you sent out of the room. I have left with him the particulars which will enable you to get the papers.”
“On your side, Mr. Denver, you will observe confidence?”
I smiled as I answered.
“If they are to fall into your hands, I shall be in a place where my silence will be very effectively secured.”
“I do not ask about that,” he said as I rose. “But you will render us a service we should never forget, Mr. Denver.”
I smiled.
“You mean, I may do so. There’s an ‘if’ in the matter, and I hope it will be the strongest word in the whole conversation.”
I left him then to set about the still more difficult task of getting my audience with his Majesty.