“Well, what then?”
“That’s all I remember clearly; we had a lively time for a few minutes, and then some one shouted that the soldiers were coming; and the next I knew I was sitting on the floor, wondering what had happened. I’d been there quite a while when you found me.”
“It is marvellous how she always escapes,” he said, more to himself than to me. “Still, we’ve got a good haul this time. Now, how did you get here? Some one must have told you, guided you?”
“That I can’t tell you.”
“You mean you won’t?”
“Well, put it that way if you like.”
“Don’t be a fool, Wynn; I am asking you for your own sake. If you don’t tell me, you’ll be made to tell later. You haven’t the least idea what you’ve let yourself in for, man! Come, did not Count Solovieff—you know well who I mean—bring you here?”
“No. I came alone.”
“At least he knew you were coming?”
“He may have done. I can’t say.”