"You needn't say a word." "The War department has the letters," said Nestor, "the letters the diplomat did not secure from Mr.Cameron.

I don't know why he did not get them, I'm sure.

They were in a drawer of the big desk.

It is quite probable, however, that he was frightened away, as the others were.
That must have been quite early in the evening, and who it was that scared him away is what is puzzling me.".