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But I had only heard a gurgle of something like 'uhnmantl', which wasn't any German word that I knew. The heat put me into a half-doze and I began dreamily to wonder what other people were doing. Where had Blenkiron been posting to in that train, and what was he up to at this moment? He had been hobnobbing with ambassadors and swells I wondered if he had found out anything. What was Peter doing?
Stumm had spoken of the same personage with respect and in connection with the work I proposed to do in raising the Moslem Africans. If I found von Einem I would be getting very warm. What was the word that Stumm had whispered to Gaudian and scared that worthy? It had sounded like uhnmantl. If I could only get that clear, I would solve the riddle. I think that discovery completed my cure.
For he had spoken the words which Stumm had uttered behind his hand to Gaudian. I had heard something like 'Uhnmantl, and could make nothing of it. Now I was as certain of those words as of my own existence.
'Because of what you have done already, I answered. Stumm had translated all this time, and had given the sense of my words very fairly. But with my last answer he took liberties. What he gave was: 'Because the Dutchman thinks that we have some big card in dealing with the Moslem world. Then, lowering his voice and raising his eyebrows, he said some word like 'uhnmantl'.
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