"You were careful?" she asked.

"As careful as a person may be who walks on a floor carpeted with egg-shells," said Rowland with a smile.

"He asked if I had told you anything, given you anything?"

Rowland nodded.

"He has gone to search the body," he said.

"For the paper I gave you," whispered Tanya. "I found it in the pocket-book of Kirylo Ivanitch. I took it--there in the garden as I knelt beside him. You have committed it to memory?"

"Yes. Droite 72 Gauche 23 Droite 7----"

"Sh--! You can remember it?"

"Yes."

"Then destroy it quickly."