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There need be no prowlers scuttling off when alarmed, unless indeed it was thought wisest to let well alone, if we were harmless, and not to arouse suspicions where there were none. Here we lost ourselves in conjecture. Whose agent was the prowler? If Dollmann's, did Dollmann know now that the Dulcibella was safe, and back in the region he had expelled her from?
The other is that Dollmann is at some devil's work there which is worth finding out. Now' he paused in a gasping effort to be logical and articulate. 'Now well, look at the chart. No, better still, look first at this map of Germany. They've licked the French, and the Austrians, and are the greatest military power in Europe.
We must go back to last night's decision tell them that we're going to stay on here for a bit. Shooting, I suppose we shall have to say. 'And courting? I suggested. 'Well, they know all about that. And then we must watch for a chance of tackling Dollmann privately. Not to-night, because we want time to consider those clues of yours. "Consider"? I said: 'that's putting it mildly.
'Didn't I tell you we had to call here for letters? I got mine this morning, and among others a summons back to work. 'You are very conscientious. How will they know? 'Ah, but the second's rather urgent. There was another uncomfortable silence, broken by Dollmann. 'By the way, Herr Davies, he began, 'I ought to apologize to you for
A white label partly scratched away bore the legend '3d. I had glanced at it once or twice with no special interest. 'Well? I said, turning over some yellow pages. 'Dollmann! cried Davies. 'Dollmann wrote it. I turned to the title-page, and read: 'By Lieut. X , R.N. The name itself conveyed nothing to me, but I began to understand.
To have said nothing about Dollmann was folly to have said he tried to wreck you was equal folly. The story we agreed on was the best and safest, and you told it splendidly. But for two reasons I had to harp on the daughter one because your manner when they were mentioned was so confused as to imperil our whole position. Two, because your story, though the safest, was, at the best, suspicious.
He spoke of a German scheme of coast defence, and in the next breath of Dollmann spying for English plans in the event of war with Germany, and there he left the matter; but what sort of plans? But what sort of an attack?
This was no business of mine, and the less interest I took in it the better; so I turned to Frau Dollmann and abused the fog. 'Have you been in the harbour all day? she asked, 'then how was it you did not visit us?
Down they go, and Dollmann, who knows what to look for first, sees that damning bit of evidence staring him in the face. They look casually at the shelf among other things examine the logbook, say and he manages to push his own book out of sight. But he couldn't replace it when the interruption came.
We discussed this information while walking out over the sands to see the channel at low water. 'Did you hear anything about this in September? I asked. 'Not a word. I didn't go to Juist. I would have, probably, if I hadn't met Dollmann. What in the world did it mean? How did it affect our plans? 'Look at his boots if we pass him, was all Davies had to suggest.
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