"Acting as your secretary, she is, of course, aware of a good deal of your business." "No; you are mistaken.

Have we not arranged a code in order to prevent her from satisfying her woman's natural inquisitiveness ?" "That's admitted.

But the document in question, though somewhat guarded, is sufficiently plain to any one acquainted with the nature of our negotiations." The blind man crossed to the safe, and with the key upon his chain opened it, and, after fumbling in one of the long iron drawers revealed within, took out a big oblong envelope, orange-coloured, and secured with five black seals, now, however, broken.
This he handed to his friend, saying, "Read it again, to refresh your memory.

I know myself what it says pretty well by heart." Monsieur Goslin drew forth the paper within and read the lines of close, even writing.

It was in German.