13408 '"That's not quite good enough," answered Forbes.
13409 "We have reason to believe that you have taken a paper of importance from the Foreign Office, and that you ran in here to dispose of it.
13410 You must come back with us to Scotland Yard to be searched."
13411 'It was in vain that she protested and resisted.
13412 A four-wheeler was brought, and we all three drove back in it.
13413 We had first made an examination of the kitchen, and especially of the kitchen fire, to see whether she might have made away with the papers during the instant that she was alone.
13414 There were no signs, however, of any ashes or scraps.
13415 When we reached Scotland Yard she was handed over at once to the female searcher.
13416 I waited in an agony of suspense until she came back with her report.
13417 There were no signs of the papers.
13418 'Then, for the first time, the horror of my situation came in its full force upon me.
13419 Hitherto I had been acting, and action had numbed thought.
13420 I had been so confident of regaining the treaty at once that I had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if I failed to do so.
13421 But now there was nothing more to be done, and I had leisure to realize my position.