I too was sent to Washington.

Ronador knew nothing of the Baron's trip to Connecticut." By spying before he had sailed, Themar added, at a question from Carl, he had learned of the cipher.
"You read the paper of course when you stole it from my desk ?" "There was a noise," said Themar dully, his face bitter; "I ran for the street.

Later the paper was gone." "What were Tregar's intentions about the paper ?" Themar chewed nervously at his lips.
"His Excellency spoke to me of a paper.

He said that I must discover its whereabouts, if possible, but that none but he must steal it.
Anything written which you would seem to have hidden would be of interest to him.

He bound me by a terrible oath not to touch or read it." "And you ?" "After a time I swore that I had seen you burn it--" "Clumsy! Still if he believed it, it left me, in the event of Miss Westfall's complete ignorance of all this hubbub, the sole remaining obstacle." But Themar had not heard.