I've been seen about the streets like this for the last two days.

But say: that doctor is a long time on the way." He went to the telephone, but did not call the hospital; that would have been too direct and possibly too secret.
"Give me Headquarters--yes--who's that ?--never mind who's speaking--say: I can't get the military hospital--something wrong with the wire--will you call Major Templeton and say that Major Grim has had an accident--yes, Grim--compound fracture of the thigh--very serious--ask him to go at once to Major Grim's quarters--thanks--that's all." He returned to the fireplace and stood watching me meditatively for several minutes.
"If you deceive Templeton, you'll do," he said at last.

"Wait a minute." He went to the desk and scribbled something in Arabic on a sheet of paper, sealed that in a blank envelope, and handed it to me.
"Hide it.

You've two separate and quite distinct tasks, each more important and, in a way, dangerous than the other.

The principal danger is to me, not you.