"Swear I've nothing more. We've no list."
"But they'll tear down the walls?"
"It'll take time. Oh, if only I could get in touch with some Russians! We should have these devils entrapped."
"There must be thousands of Germans about. Szmul knows it, or he would not have risked telling about the emeralds and stores," said the priest.
"I'll punish him when this is over," cried Ian. "After I've sheltered him, too."
Here the Countess came in. She had heard all.
"Give them everything, rather than they should shoot you," she pleaded.
"They won't shoot me, Mother, not till they've tried the Commercial Bank. Where is Minnie?"
"Up in the secret room."
"Thank God!" He looked relieved. "And now, you go there, too."