And, Oscar, listen carefully to what I say." The soldier drew nearer to Armitage, who sat swinging his legs on the table in the bungalow.
"If I should die unshriven during the next week, here's a key that opens a safety-vault box at the Bronx Loan and Trust Company, in New York.

In case I am disabled, go at once with the key to Baron von Marhof, Ambassador of Austria-Hungary, and tell him--tell him--" He had paused for a moment as though pondering his words with care; then he laughed and went on.
"-- tell him, Oscar, that there's a message in that safety box from a gentleman who might have been King." Oscar stared at Armitage blankly.
"That is the truth, Sergeant.

The message once in the good Baron's hands will undoubtedly give him a severe shock.

You will do well to go to bed.
I shall take a walk before I turn in." "You should not go out alone--" "Don't trouble about me; I shan't go far.

I think we are safe until two gentlemen have met in Washington, discussed their affairs, and come down into the mountains again.