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Updated: June 28, 2025
In the same instant Miss Smith silently had opened the nearest door and, beckoning to Miss Ballister to follow her, was tiptoeing softly out into the empty hall. The door closed gently behind them. Miss Ballister laughed a forced little laugh. She turned, presenting her back to Miss Smith. "Now untie me, please do." In her eagerness to be free she panted out the words.
The two had long since disappeared in the room beneath, and yet Hartmut stood grasping the ballister, and looking down into the semi-darkness with vacant eyes. When Stadinger came out again, Hartmut retraced his steps slowly to his own room. For a quarter of an hour he paced restlessly up and down.
Now while in Washington he was noticeably attentive to just two women Miss Ballister and Madame Ybanca. Now mark a lengthening of the parallel: Both of them are small women; both of them are slender; both are young, and both of course have refined voices. Neither speaks with any special accent, for the madame, though married to a Latin, is an American woman.
But having for the moment no eyes with which to see, no third person there witnessed these little interludes of stratagem and design, though it was by no means hard for them to sense that again a coup had been scored. What they did not know was that the newest victim was Evelyn Ballister. "Oh, somebody else has been nabbed! Goody! Goody!
It will be easy enough to do the thing there; whereas a meeting in any other place, public or private, might be dangerous for both of them. "Miss Ballister will be coming over from Washington to-morrow. She has a chair-car reservation on the Pennsylvania train leaving there at ten o'clock in the morning.
I think he figures that should discovery of the theft come soon he not knowing it already has come then in such case there will be a divided trail for us to follow, one end pointing toward Miss Ballister and the other toward the madame. Or, at least, so I diagnose his mental processes. "If I have diagnosed them correctly, the big part of the job, Miss Smith, is now up to you.
Now then, let each person blindfold his or her eyes with the handkerchief you have; but take care that you are well blinded. "Oh, Miss Ballister, let me adjust your handkerchief, won't you? I'm afraid you might disarrange that lovely hair ornament of yours unless you have help. There! How's that! Can you see anything at all? How many fingers do I hold up?"
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