true is true they will be a protection for you and your aids as well. But they, and those who relieve them,
must stay in the room night and day. If Peters is taken from the room, they must accompany him-no
matter where it is that he is taken."
"I can arrange it," I said. Then, at his request, I sent an orderly down to the doors. He returned with one
of the men Ricori had left on guard. Ricori whispered to him, and he went out. In a little while two other
men came up. In the meantime I had explained the peculiar situation to the resident and the
superintendent and secured the necessary permission for their stay.
The two men were well-dressed, polite, of a singularly tight-lipped and cold-eyed alertness. One of them
shot a glance at Peters.
"Christ!" he muttered.