To guard against accidents I named you jointly with myself as entitled to the contents of that box.

Here is the key." As he placed the slim bit of steel on the table and stepped back to his old position on the hearth, they saw how white he was, and that his hand shook, and Dick begged him to sit down.
"Yes; will you not be seated, Monsieur ?" said the Baron kindly.
"No; I shall have finished in a moment.

The Archduke gave those documents to me, and with them a paper that will explain much in the life of that unhappy gentleman.

It contains a disclosure that might in certain emergencies be of very great value.

I beg of you, believe that he was not a fool, and not a madman.