But you may have something in there which might be of value to them.

You're often the keeper of valuable documents belonging to Englishmen abroad, you know." "Certainly.

But there's nothing in there just now except, perhaps, the registers of births, marriages and deaths of British subjects, and the papers concerning a Board of Trade inquiry.

No, my dear Gordon, depend upon it that the yacht running ashore was all a blind.

They did it so as to be able to get the run of the Consulate, secure the ciphers, and sail merrily away with them.