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"This Captain Herts sent three of his own people over the Swiss wire the other evening. Did you know about it?" McKay looked worried: "I'm sorry," he said. "Captain Herts proposed some such assistance but I declined. It wasn't necessary. Two on such a job are plenty; half-a-dozen endanger it." Recklow shrugged: "I can't judge, not knowing details.
Then McKay's sunken eyes glittered and he stiffened up, and his wasted features seemed to shrink until the parting of his lips showed his teeth. It was a dreadful laughter his manner, now, of expressing mirth. "Recklow," he said, "in 1914 that vast enterprise was scheduled to be finished according to plan.
Candles twinkled on the little table where the girl now lay back listlessly in the depths of an armchair, her chin sunk on her breast. Recklow sat opposite her, writing on a pad in shorthand.
I drew that myself from memory, and I believe it is fairly correct." Recklow unfolded a little map, marked a spot on it with his pencil and passed it to McKay. "It's for you," he said. "The sapling ladder lies under the filbert bushes in the gulley where I have marked the boundary. Wait till the patrol passes. Then you have ten minutes.
Recklow, breathing easily, his iron frame insensible to any fatigue from the swift climb, halted finally at the base of the abrupt slope which marked the beginning of the last ascent to the summit. The girl, Helsa, speechless from exertion, came reeling up among the rocks and leaned gasping against a pine. "Now," said Recklow, "you can wait here for your two friends.
Yet they had to cross the peak; they dared not remain in a forest where they believed Recklow was hunting them with many men and their renegade comrade, Helsa, to guide them. As they toiled upward, Macniff heard Skelton fiercely muttering sometimes, sometimes whining curses on this girl who had betrayed them both who had betrayed him in particular.
The gentleman's other name was John Recklow, and he received the Intelligence Officer, locked the door, and seated himself behind his desk with his back to the sunlit window, and one drawer of his desk partly open.
Recklow shook hands with McKay. "You'll want a furlough, too," he remarked. "I'll fix it. How do you feel, McKay?" "All right. Has anything come out of our report on the Great Secret?" Recklow seated himself and they listened in strained silence to his careful report. Once Evelyn caught her breath and Recklow paused and turned to look at her.
After a short, whispered consultation they guided their machines into the garden, through a paved alley to a tiled shed. Then they went on duty, one taking the telephone in Recklow's private office, the other busying himself with the clutter of maps and papers. And Recklow went back to the door in the wall. About eleven an American motor ambulance drove up.
Now and then John Recklow opened the heavy wooden door in his garden wall and watched them until duty called him to his telephone or to his room where maps and papers littered the long table.
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