“What we have to do is to thwart the purpose; for, depend on it, we are in as great danger from him as ever. I think I begin to see it now.”
“Show me.”
“He knows that the papers will be in either your hands or mine and accordingly has hurried our marriage.”
“I don’t think we’ll blame him for that,” I interposed, and drew a glance of love from her.
“Then he put out the bait for this long journey for us together——”
“But he first opposed your going and wanted me to go alone.”
“Yes, knowing it would be useless for you to go by yourself. He was merely working round to his end. He can of course deal more easily with us together. Then, see his next step. He waits until we are married and pledged to go to Siberia, and then contrives that the papers are to be suddenly forced back into our possession. Mr. Marvyn is to give them to you this morning, we are to start to-night or to-morrow; and he reckons he can watch us so closely after you get them and until we start that he will learn what you do with them.”
“I meant to take them with us.”
Helga thought a moment and shook her head.
“Very likely he has meant that too, but I doubt if he would take such a risk. If I read him aright, he will look for his opportunity at the first convenient moment after you leave the Embassy this morning. You will have the papers with you and an arrest and a search would give him all he wants. You see it now?”