Accordingly, I placed the letter in my own pocket, and I released my hold of Clery.
"'You can go back to your master,' I said, 'and tell him that you have seen me, and that I have his letter.

It will be sufficient.

And you can tell him that I shall be in London to-morrow night, and if any such person as Mr.Drew Foster is staying at the Savoy Hotel, he will know the inside of a military prison before midnight.' "The man slunk away.

I suppose he realized that with me in the way their game was up.

But afterwards he must have hesitated, and then made up his mind to attempt what was probably the bravest action of his life.
He followed me, stole up softly behind, and with an old trick which they teach them on the other side of the Seine, he as nearly as possible throttled me.