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Rh be exactly inconvenient for Black Michael if you disappeared. With you gone the old game that we stopped would be played—or he'd have a shot at it."

"I can take care of myself."

"De Gautet, Bersonin, and Detchard are in Strelsau; and any one of them, lad, would cut your throat as readily—as readily as I would Black Michael's and a deal more treacherously. What's the letter?"

I opened it and read it aloud:

"No," observed Sapt as I ended, "but he can dictate a very pretty letter."