"I can't believe----"
"Everything points to it. He told you that he was going to bring the case up in the Committee--take the disposition of the funds of Nemi out of our hands and have its appropriation made by the Munich Committee itself. Is this not true?"
"Yes, but how did you----"
Rowland grinned in self-gratulation. He was really beginning to have a high opinion of his own intelligence.
"Madame Rochal told me. But if Hochwald had that notion he has changed it now. He is going to that meeting tonight to swear that he has not been able to recover the money--that you have escaped from Germany and taken it with you."
She was trying to understand.
"And that is why he was guarding me so closely--so that I could not get into touch with our friends in Munich!"
"Precisely. Only you and I can save the situation. You who have only to tell the truth. I who will bring into the meeting the suit-case and if I'm not guessing badly show the bank notes themselves. Do you understand?"
Tanya pressed his hand in token of comprehension.
"But how do you know all this?" she asked.