They'd know that, of course, but I could make them believe that I was in it against my will, and that the two men in uniform they saw had escaped.

If they catch you, they'll send you back to headquarters and you'll be recognized there at once.

Then they'd do to me whatever they did to you, just because I was caught in your company.

No, it's the only chance for either of us, Fred, and you've got to take it quickly." The idea of abandoning a friend, and much more one who had come to mean so much to him as did Boris, seemed terrible to Fred.

And yet it was impossible for him to refute Boris's argument.