I had every confidence in him--the fullest confidence.

I knew he was a thoroughly straight man.
And just as I had decided to sell these jewels'-- all my own property, mind--in order to clear off the whole lot of the mortgages on my son's estate, so's he could come into them quite unencumbered, I happened to meet Mr.James Allerdyke in St.Petersburg--that's of course, a few weeks ago--and I immediately took him into my confidence and asked his help.
With the result," added the Princess, "that he cabled to Mr.Fullaway there and that all this has come about! I tell you in the most emphatic manner at my command," she went on, turning to the official, and tapping the edge of his desk as if to accentuate her words, "it's impossible that anybody over there in Russia could have known of my arrangements with Mr.
James Allerdyke--utterly impossible.

For I never spoke of them to any one there, and I'm sure he would not!" "Impossible is a big word, Princess," said the official.

"There may have been ways of leakage.

Did you exchange any correspondence on the matter ?" "Not a line!" replied the Princess.