"Dick, don't talk like that! You don't know who may be listening!"
"Why, Harry! No one can hear us--we're all alone in the carriage!"
"I know, but we don't know who's in the next one, or whether they can hear
through or not. The wall isn't very thick, you know. We can't be too
careful. I don't think anyone knows what we're doing but there isn't any
reason why we should take any risk at all."
"No, of course not. You're right, Harry," said Dick, a good deal abashed.
"I'll try to keep quieter after this."
"I wonder why there are two of us," said Dick, presently, in a whisper. "I
should think one would be enough."
"I think we've both got just the same papers to carry," said Harry, also
in a whisper. "You see, if one of us gets lost, or anything happens to his
papers, the other will probably get through all right. At least it looks
that way to me."
"Harry," said Dick, after a pause, "I've got an idea. Suppose we separate
and take different ways to get to Waterloo? Wouldn't that make it safer? We
could meet there and go back to Ealing together."
"That's a good idea, Dick," said Harry. He didn't think that their present
errand was one of great importance, in spite of what Colonel Throckmorton
had said. He thought it more likely that they were being tried out and
tested, so that the colonel might draw his own conclusions as to how far he
might safely trust them in the future.
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