“My wife will remain here, and I am quite content that you and any number of your men should accompany me. I assure you that my visit is of extreme interest to his Majesty.”
He thought this over, and at length assented.
“We must accompany you, as you are——”
“Come, then. That is all I ask,” I broke in. “I shall make no attempt to shirk any responsibility in all this.”
We drove to the Embassy; he and one of his men with me inside the carriage; and we were shown at once to Marvyn, who looked in astonishment at my companions, recognizing the chief.
“I am under arrest, Marvyn, that’s all. I am not going to Siberia after all, and want you to stop those papers. Wire to your man, wherever he is, and——”
“He hasn’t gone yet. Something turned up to delay him.”
“Then get back the packet and bring it along with you to the Imperial, and just see to things. Prince Kalkov was with us, and has had a seizure of some sort, and my wife and I are under arrest.”
He went away and returned soon, carrying the packet.
“If those are M. Denver’s papers, I must ask that they be given to me,” said the official immediately.