No doubt he had arranged the wording of any message with the care which was used in all the preparations.

It ran like this"-- and Hanaud took a scrap of paper from his pocket and read out from it a copy of the telegram: "'Agent arrives Aix 3.7 to negotiate purchase of your patent.' The telegram was handed in at Geneva station at 12.45, five minutes after the train had left which carried Marthe Gobin to Aix.

And more, it was handed in by a man strongly resembling Hippolyte Tace--that we know." "That was madness," said Ricardo.
"But what else could they do over there in Geneva?
They did not know that Harry Wethermill was suspected.

Harry Wethermill had no idea of it himself.

But, even if they had known, they must take the risk.