Kramenin interrupted him, using the words that have created many unnecessary panics:

“We have been betrayed! Plans must be abandoned. We must save our own skins. The girl! And at once! It’s our only chance.”

Whittington hesitated, but for hardly a moment.

“You have orders⁠—from him ?”

“Naturally! Should I be here otherwise? Hurry! There is no time to be lost. The other little fool had better come too.”