16/20 He was there, disguised, almost unrecognizable. He was nervous and desperate; he had the air of a man who has cut himself adrift from the world. I gave him the money,--twenty thousand pounds in Bank of England notes, Louise,--and he gave me the papers, or what we thought were the papers. You have not heard yet, then ?" She shook her head. "When I took it to--to Downing Street, it was full of blank paper." The color slowly left her cheeks. |