You will see us join the train there.

Go now, while the guard is out of the way." I could not see, but I heard Yussuf Dakmar get up and go.

He had hardly time to get out of earshot when Grim's voice broke the silence again: "You there, Ramsden ?" Instead of answering I approached.
"Did you hear what was said ?" he asked.
"Yes.

Why didn't you arrest both the blackguards and have done with it ?" "Better the evil that we know..." he answered, with the familiar smile in his voice.

"The important thing is to sidetrack the French agent, who could put fifty ruffians on our trail instead of one." "Why not send a provost-marshal's guard to the French agent, then ?" "Can't do that.