What is certain is that somebody must have got to know of this proposed deal between the Princess and your man, Fullaway, and have laid plans accordingly to rob the Princess's messenger--my cousin James.

D'ye see, the deal was known of at two ends--to you here, to this Princess, through James, over there, in Russia.

Now, then, where did the secret get out?
Did it get out there, or here ?" "Not here, of course!" answered Fullaway, with emphasis.

"That's dead sure.

Over there, of a certainty.