Then Boris took the words from his mouth.
"Father, I want to stay!" he said, eagerly.

"It will be safe.

I can get back to the house and they can never catch me there, you know! They may not even search for me, but if they do, I can hide from them in the tunnel.

And you say the German movement about here is puzzling.

Would it not be well to have some way of sending word from here?
Ivan is at work.
But no matter what he discovers, if we are not at the house, it will do no good.