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She must have misconstrued our sheepish silence, for she stopped and drew herself up with just a touch of momentary hauteur, utterly lost on Davies. I could have laughed aloud at this transient little comedy of errors. 'Did you see any gold? said Davies at last, with husky solemnity. Something had to be said or we should defeat our own end; but I let him say it. He had not my faith in Memmert.
There was only one thing for it a last finesse, to put him to the proof. 'Very well, I said, after a moment or two, 'we'll clear out silence, Davies! as it appears we have acted in error; but it's right to tell you that we know everything. 'Not so loud, curse you! What do you know? 'I was taking notes at Memmert the other night. 'Impossible! 'Thanks to Davies.
I set myself to the lead again, averse to reopening a barren argument. Grimm had done his work for the present, I felt certain, and was on his way by the shortest road to Norderney and Memmert. We were soon outside and heading west, our boom squared away and the island sand-dunes just apparent under our lee. Then the breeze died to the merest draught, and left us rolling inert in a long swell.
But more than ever mysterious now, for in the evening, not only you and Herr Böhme 'What penetration! laughed von Brüning. 'But also Commander von Brüning, pay us a visit in his launch, all coming from Memmert! 'And you infer? said von Brüning.
Those shallow depths and short distances, fractions of metres and kilometres, which I had overheard from Böhme's lips at Memmert, and which Davies had attributed to the outside channels did they refer to a canal? I remembered seeing barges in Bensersiel harbour.
I now found it behind them, in a wrenched attitude, which showed that someone who had no time to spare had pushed it roughly inwards. 'What do you make of that? said Davies. He produced long drinks, and we allowed ourselves ten minutes of absolute rest, stretched at full length on the sofas. 'They don't trust Dollmann, I said. 'I spotted that at Memmert even. 'How?
At the mention of von Brüning she showed no emotion of any sort; on the contrary, she went out of her way, from an innocent motive that anyone could have guessed, to show that she could talk about him with dispassionate detachment. 'He came to see us when you were here last, didn't he? she said to Davies. 'He often comes. He goes with father to Memmert sometimes. You know about Memmert?
'Take you to Memmert? But I thought you were starting for England to-morrow? 'I ought to; but I'll stay for that. 'You said it was urgent. Your conscience is very elastic. 'That's my affair. Will you take me to Memmert? 'What do you say, gentlemen? Böhme nodded. 'I think we owe some reparation. Under promise of absolute secrecy, then? 'Of course, now that you trust me.
It was no lethal cargo, but coal, common household coal; not a full load of it, I remembered just a good-sized mound amidships, trimmed with battens fore and aft to prevent shifting. 'Well, thought I, 'this is intelligible enough. Grimm was ostensibly there to call for a load of coal for Memmert.
The only place on the whole coast, now I came to think of it, where the tug could land at this tide. There the quay would be on the starboard side, and I saw myself tied to my eyrie while the passengers landed and the tug and lighter turned back for Memmert; at Memmert, dawn, and discovery.
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