I was to be packed off to Cairo by sea, which would take weeks, and God knows how I would get from Egypt to Constantinople.

I saw all my plans falling to pieces about my ears, and just when I thought they were shaping nicely.
Stumm must have interpreted the look on my face as fear.
'You have no cause to be afraid,' he said.

'We have passed the word to the English police to look out for a suspicious South African named Brandt, one of Maritz's rebels.

It is not difficult to have that kind of a hint conveyed to the proper quarter.

But the description will not be yours.