No, they're safe.

You write, and I'll sign it with your seal." She hesitated, but I don't know whether from caution or from a genuine dislike to deceive her husband's loyal henchman.

But there was no way of getting out of it except by blunt refusal, involving the threatened escort into British territory and deportation.

So she wrote, and Grim sealed the letter: He handed it to Ali Baba.
"Select the most trustworthy of your sons, O King of Thieves, give him the fastest camel, and let him ride with that to the oasis.

Bid him ride hard and overtake us with the answer." "Do you think my sons have wings ?" asked Ali Baba.
"Not unless devils are winged!" laughed Grim.