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Updated: June 10, 2025
Your servants have gone by the Underground Railway to France. Ehrlich well, I'm sorry about Ehrlich. I knew now the name of the Portuguese Jew. 'He wasn't a bad sort of man, Blenkiron said regretfully, 'and he was plumb honest. I couldn't get him to listen to reason, and he would play with firearms. So I had to shoot. 'Dead? asked Ivery sharply. 'Ye-es. I don't miss, and it was him or me.
It was a strange thing that this man, the most imperturbable and, I think, about the most courageous I have ever met, should be paralysed by a slim woman. There was no doubt about it. The thought of her made the future to him as black as a thunder cloud. It took the power out of his joints, and if she was going to be much around, it looked as if Blenkiron might be counted out.
I made a brew for Sandy and myself and boiled some milk for Blenkiron. 'What about language? I asked. 'You're all right, Sandy? 'I know German fairly well; and I can pass anywhere as a Turk. The first will do for eavesdropping and the second for ordinary business. 'And you? I asked Blenkiron. 'I was left out at Pentecost, he said. 'I regret to confess I have no gift of tongues.
With a rush came thoughts of Mary and Blenkiron and Peter and everything we had laboured for, and I was mad to win. I had no notion of the interior of the house or where lay the main door to the outer world. My torch showed me a long passage with something like a door at the far end, but I clicked it off, for I did not dare to use it now. The place was deadly quiet.
Under the black canopy of the night perils are either forgotten or terribly alive. Mine were forgotten. The darkness I galloped into led me to freedom and friends. Yes, and success, which I had not dared to hope and scarcely even to dream of. Hussin rode first, with me at his side. I turned my head and saw Blenkiron behind me, evidently mortally unhappy about the pace we set and the mount he sat.
It was very evident that if they kept up the chase we should be caught, for Blenkiron was about as useful on a roof as a hippo. Presently we came to a big drop, with a kind of ladder down it, and at the foot a shallow ledge running to the left into a pit of darkness. Hussin gripped my arm and pointed down it. 'Follow it, he whispered, 'and you will reach a roof which spans a street.
I gathered it was Blenkiron who had had him sent to St Anton, and in his time there, as a disgruntled Boer, he had mixed a good deal with Germans. They had pumped him about our air service, and Peter had told them many ingenious lies and heard curious things in return. 'They are working hard, Dick, he said. 'Never forget that.
Also, I could give them points on what is happening at their very door, for our friend Sandy is a big boss in the best-run crowd of mountebanks that ever fiddled secrets out of men's hearts. Without their help I wouldn't have cut much ice in this city. 'I want you to tell me one thing, Blenkiron, I said. 'I've been playing a part for the past month, and it wears my nerves to tatters.
But I was getting a sort of grip on a plan of operations. And to my relief I had stopped thinking about the risks. Blenkiron had shamed me out of that. If a sedentary dyspeptic could show that kind of nerve, I wasn't going to be behind him. I went back to my flat about five o'clock.
Wake, you'll come with me, for every man will be wanted. Blenkiron, you'll see Mary and Peter safe to England. We're just in time, for tomorrow it mightn't be easy to get out of Amiens. I can see yet the anxious faces in that ill-lit compartment. We said goodbye after the British style without much to-do.
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