"We'll make ourselves scarce, Fred.

Vladimir can talk to them when they arrive." But Fred did not go without one more sweeping look about him.

And it showed him something that surprised him.
"I've got a curious feeling," he told Boris, when they had slipped into the secret passage.

"I've got what we call a hunch in America--a feeling that Ivan has been fooled.

You didn't see what I did just now.