Chapter 20

Was there any other way? Perhaps there was ... a quite simple way. Why couldn't he simply ask the guard to step into the cell and request permission to talk to him? He would plead urgency, but do it very casually, arouse the man's curiosity without antagonizing him too much. No need to be crafty, await some unlikely opportunity, or anything of the sort. Simply overpower the man--straight off, without any fuss. It had happened before, but that very fact would make the guard contemptuous, more than ever convinced tha…