"What do you want of me ?" "I desire you to give the Mademoiselle Heath her complete freedom," I said.
"Is that all ?" "All--for the present." "But her future is not in my hands.

The Minister in Petersburg has decreed her removal to Saghalien as a person dangerous to the State." "Which means that she will be ill-treated--knouted to death, perhaps." "We do not use the knout in the Russian prisons nowadays," he said briefly.

"His Majesty has decreed its abolition." "But you adopt torture in Kajana and Schusselburg instead." "My time is too limited to discuss our penal system, m'sieur," he exclaimed impatiently, while I could well see that he was anxious to escape before I made any further charges against him.

I had already shown him that Elma had spoken, and he feared that she had told the truth.

While this would embitter him against her and cause him to seek to silence her at all hazards, it was of course in my own interests that he should fear any revelations that I might make.
"You have posed in England as the uncle of Elma Heath, and yet you here hold her prisoner.