It doesn't mean any greater risk.

We would only have to come back again--for I've work to do in this room yet!" The return of the light seemed to give a new cast of practicality to his thoughts.
"What sort of work ?" his wife was asking him.
"Seventeen hundred napoleons in gold to find," he answered grimly.
"Oh, it's not that, not _that_!" she said, starting up.

"It's the papers, the Gibraltar papers!" "Papers ?" he repeated wonderingly.
"Yes, the imperial specifications.

Pobloff's a paid agent in the French secret service.

They say he was the man who secured Kitchener's Afghanistan frontier plans, and in some way or other had a good deal to do with the Curzon resignation." "Ah, I _thought_ there was something behind our _boyard_!" "A year ago last March he was arrested in Jamaica, by the British authorities, for securing secret photographs of the Port Royal fortifications.