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I went round to his hut, but it was all fastened up as usual. Then I went to Piet Vreiboom's." She shuddered suddenly. "I saw Kieff as well as Vreiboom. They seemed hugely amused at my appearance, and told me Guy was just ahead on the way to Brennerstadt. It was too late to ride the whole way, so I went to Ritzen, hoping to find him there.
If you don't improve very quickly, I shall take you to Brennerstadt to see a decent doctor there." "Oh, don't be absurd!" she said, with quick annoyance. "I'm not going to do anything so silly." He put his hand on her arm. "Sylvia, I've got something to say to you," he said. She made a slight movement as if his touch were unwelcome. "Well? What is it?" she said. "Only this."
She even believed she was beginning to hate him. She dreaded the prospect of another long day spent at Brennerstadt. It was the day of the diamond draw, too. The place would be a seething tumult. She was so unutterably tired. She thought with a weary longing of Blue Hill Farm. At least she would find a measure of peace there, though healing were denied her.
She knew it could not last, but its very transience made her the more ready 10 take advantage of it. And she was thankful for every day that carried her farther from that terrible time at Brennerstadt. It had begun to seem more like an evil dream to her now a nightmare happening that never could have taken place in ordinary, normal existence.
He certainly would never have made a confidant of such a man as Kelly unless it had suited his purpose. He took several moments for consideration before he made reply. "I presume you are aware," he said then, "that Mrs. Ranger has left for Brennerstadt?" "What?" said Kelly. Kieff did not repeat his question. He merely waited for it to sink in.
She started up, facing him, a sudden sharp misgiving at her heart. "Burke! You! Where is Dr. Kieff?" He uttered a grim, exultant sound that made her quiver. "He is on his way back to Ritzen or Brennerstadt. He didn't mention which." "Ah!" Her hands were tightly clasped upon her breast. "What what have you done to him?" she panted. Burke had risen to his feet.
She may be back in the morning, she and young Guy too. They're old friends. P'raps there's nothing in it but just a jaunt." Kieff's laugh had a sound like the slipping of a stone in a slimy cave. "You always had ideas," he remarked. "But they will scarcely be back from Brennerstadt by the morning.
For surely ah, surely, if she knew him he had begun already to repent in burning shame and self-loathing. He must have ridden all the way to Brennerstadt, for he was not at Ritzen. Ritzen was not a place to hide in. Would she find him at Brennerstadt? There were only two hotels there, and Kieff had said he would stop at one of them.
"Ah, but you'll call me Donovan," he said persuasively, "the same as everyone else! So you've come to Brennerstadt after all! And is it the diamond ye're after?" She shook her head. They were standing on a balcony that led out of the public smoking-room, an awning over their heads and the open street at their feet.
It was the key that Burke had given into her care. She knew it for the key of his strong-box in which he kept his money and papers. His journeys to Brennerstadt were never frequent, and she knew that he usually kept a considerable sum by him. The box was kept on the floor of the cupboard in the wall of the room which Guy now occupied.
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