Michael and St. George, which the Queen was sending to our
Ambassador. The Messenger was very much entertained at my scheme, and
some months later when he met the Princess he told her about it as an
amusing story. Of course, he had no idea she was a Russian spy. He
didn't know anything at all about her, except that she was a very
attractive woman. It was indiscreet, but he could not possibly have
guessed that she could ever make any use of what he told her.
"Later, after the robbery, I remembered that I had informed this
young chap of my secret hiding-place, and when I saw him again I
questioned him about it. He was greatly distressed, and said he had
never seen the importance of the secret. He remembered he had told
several people of it, and among others the Princess Zichy. In that
way I found out that it was she who had robbed me, and I know that
from the moment I left London she was following me, and that she knew
then that the diamonds were concealed in my cigar-case.
"My train for Nice left Paris at ten in the morning. When I travel at
night I generally tell the chef de gare that I am a Queen's
Messenger, and he gives me a compartment to myself, but in the
daytime I take whatever offers.
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