"Why did you not take them before this?"
"I did not know the secret of the hiding-place until I came here. My friends are on the way there now."
"The castle is guarded. It is occupied by two hundred of my most trusty men."
"Ten thousand would not be sufficient."
After a minute's reflection, the visitor asked:
"How do you know the secret?"
"I guessed it."
"But you had other elements of information which the papers did not publish?"
"No, none at all."
"And yet I had the castle searched for four days."