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Von Hamner crawled back to his chair. He did not like the look of a dead man who had come to life again. Nicol Hendry held out his hand, and said: "And is it really you, Professor? Mr Amena here has just had news that you were dead 'fallen overboard in the Baltic from Prince Oscarovitch's yacht. Body not recovered, is what the telegram says." "The body is here right enough, M. Hendry.
Oscar Oscarovitch's soul was in a tumult of bewilderment, but his almost perfect training made it possible for him to say as quietly as though he had been taking leave of his hostess at a reception in London: "Miss Marmion, we must thank you for your great consideration.
From this a broad road, cut straight through the forest, sloped steeply up to a plateau on which stood a gaunt, grey, turreted castle, the very picture of the sea-robbers' home that it had been in the days of Oscarovitch's not very remote ancestors. Up this road and into the outer gate across the lowered drawbridge the sleeping-sack and the insensible man within were borne.
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