"Still," he went on firmly, "he is a corporator with all that implies—a ‘suit,’ you might call him. He and his superiors want you, for some reason—dead or captured, I don’t know which—and they have extensive resources and sources of information, else he would never have found me. My conclusion is that you are truly in deep trouble, Richard, but I further conclude that I have been ‘compromised’ as a source of aid. I am truly sorry."