"
"Yes, I will take it thankfully, I promise you."
"The only safe course now is the boldest. You must make another
exchange with your sister, Lady Blackadder--"
"Call her Lady Henriette Standish. She has dropped the other
entirely."
"By all means. Lady Henriette then has determined to take the first
train from Amberieu at--Have you a Bradshaw? Thank you--at 5.52
A.M., which will get her to Culoz at 6.48. You must, if
possible, exchange babies, and at the same time exchange _roles_. I
feel sure that you, at any rate, are not afraid of going to Marseilles
with the real baby."
"Hardly!" she laughed scornfully. "But Henriette--what is to become of
her?"
"That shall be my affair. It is secondary, really. The first and
all-important is for you to secure the little Ralph and escape with
him. It will have to be done under the very eyes of the enemy, for
there is every reason to fear they will be going on, too. The other
detective, this Tiler--I have heard them call him by that name--will
have told them of her ladyship's movements, and will have summoned
them, Falfani at least, to his side.
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