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Finally he rang up the police station. "I'm Bullard, Aasvogel Syndicate, Manchester House. A man attempting to enter by the window has fallen to the street. I'll remain here till you come." The spiritual glow in which Alan left Earl's Gate had cooled considerably by the time he reached the Midland Hotel.
He could not betray a " the waving of wings above him caught his eye "he could not betray an aasvogel." His look followed the bird of prey, the servitor of carrion death, as it flew down the wind. He had absorbed the salt of tears and valour.
I had better show you how the door works from this side." It was a much worried young man whom Caw presently left alone. Until last night, when he had looked at Marjorie Handyside's note, it had never occurred to him to connect the crime in the Arctic wastes with the will he had signed in the Aasvogel Syndicate office, on that fine spring morning, eighteen months ago.
Then they try to fan it when the ashes are cold. He rolled a paper pellet and flicked it into the air. 'That is what I think of your idiot general, he said, 'and of all you Dutch. As slow as a fat vrouw and as greedy as an aasvogel. We looked very glum and sullen. 'A pair of dumb dogs, he cried. 'A thousand Brandenburgers would have won in a fortnight.
They hovered for a few seconds, then fell like stones, pitched on to their beaks, recovered themselves, waddled forward into line, and sat gazing at Hans. Soon there was a great ring of them about him, all immovable, all gazing, all waiting for something. Presently that something appeared in the shape of an aasvogel which was nearly twice as big as any of the others.
I'm afraid I shall have to drop the aasvogel, and it did give such lovely local colour to the thing." "Still you've got the heedless hartebeest." "And quite a decorative bit of moral admonition when you've worried the meaning out 'Cease, War, thy bubbling madness that the wine shares, And bid thy legions turn their swords to mine shares.
Already an aasvogel was hovering above; a mere speck, the great bird poised upon widespread wings, high up in the illimitable blue. Presently there would be a flock of these carrion feeders, that are not averse to fresh-killed meat when it is to be had. Bough remounted, and, humming a dance tune that was often on his lips, rode away over the veld. The great vulture wheeled.
In either event it might prove meat for Sheeta, and so the wary feline stalked by a circuitous route, upon soft, padded feet that gave forth no sound, until the circling aasvogel and his intended prey were upwind.
Again as the gun exploded I saw that backward lurch of the bird, and heard the clap of the air upon its wings. Then oh horror! this aasvogel turned quietly, and began to mount the ladder of the sky in the same fashion as it had descended. I had missed once more. "The second heap of stones has done this, baas," said Hans faintly, and this time I did not even look him.
At that hour the place was deserted, and in the furthest corner he seated himself and opened the paper. Trouble had been threatening on the Rand for some time, but Bullard was quite unprepared for a catastrophe such as he was now called upon to face. The details were few but fateful. Thus: "The group of mines controlled by the Aasvogel Syndicate are the chief sufferers so far.
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