Had you not best be making search for them ?" He smiled darkly.

"I have seen to that already," he replied.
"How ?" excitedly.

"You have got the papers ?" "No; but I have set an experienced hand to find them, and one, moreover, who has the right by virtue of his warrant--the messenger of the secretary of state." She sat up, rigid.

"'Sdeath! What is't ye mean ?" "No need for alarm," he reassured her.

"This fellow Green is in my pay, as well as in the secretary's, and it will profit him most to keep faith with me.