At first I was alarmed, but quickly I saw that he was a friend.

He told me that the police were in the vicinity and intended to raid the hut, therefore I fled with him, first down to Tammerfors and then to Abo, and on here.

At that time I did not see the dastardly trap he had laid in order to get me out of the Baron's clutches and wring from me my secret.

If I confess, he intends to give me up to the police, who will send me to the mines." "Does your secret concern him ?" I asked in writing.
"Yes," she wrote in response.

"It would be equally in his interests as well as those of Baron Oberg if I were sent to Saghalien and my identity effaced.