“She told me who she was herself—and told me before Drexel.”
“Drexel knows the princess. You may be right.” He walked the floor in repressed excitement. “Yes—you are right! And her pretended illness is only a trick to hide her absence!”
He came to a pause. “But what charge can be made against her? The jail-breaking plot? Shooting gendarmes?”
“An attempt to assassinate Prince Berloff.”
“What!”
“She is that woman. She confessed it to me.”
“Captain Nadson was not mistaken then! But do many know all this?”
“Only you and I, and two or three revolutionists besides those under arrest.”
“Then between us two it must remain a secret.”
“Of course. But you must act quickly, or the revolutionists may decide to reveal it.”