"I have many things to tell you."
She caught the man's meaning and turned it back with a shy smile.
"I mean—about this man De Rothan."
"I am afraid that I have been playing the spy."
"You?"
"It was for good ends, and to help you and yours."
She looked at him anxiously.
"Have you found out anything more?"
"A little. Look at this."
He dropped her hand gently, and pulled out the leather case that he had taken from the sea-captain, Jerome.