“When the Lusitania was torpedoed, a man came up to me. I’d noticed him more than once⁠—and I’d figured it out in my own mind that he was afraid of somebody or something. He asked me if I was a patriotic American, and told me he was carrying papers which were just life or death to the Allies. He asked me to take charge of them. I was to watch for an advertisement in the Times . If it didn’t appear, I was to take them to the American ambassador.