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Updated: June 10, 2025
Then to my amazement he tossed one of them back. The donor regarded it quizzically as it lay on the pavement. 'That boy's a connoisseur of tobacco, he said. As we moved away I saw the Turkish policeman pick it up and put it inside his cap. We returned by the long street on the crest of the hill. There was a man selling oranges on a tray, and Blenkiron stopped to look at them.
I had a rubdown and then got into pyjamas for some dumb-bell exercises with two chairs, for that long wet ride had stiffened my arm and shoulder muscles. They were a vulgar suit of primitive blue, which Blenkiron had looted from my London wardrobe. As Cornelis Brandt I had sported a flannel nightgown.
They talked of Bali, and Rhys Davids, and Bishop, and McCudden, and all the heroes who had won their spurs since the Somme, and of the new British makes, most of which Peter had never seen and had to have explained to him. Outside a haze had drawn over the meadows with the twilight. I pointed it out to Blenkiron. 'There's the fog that's doing us.
You couldn't want me to be humbler than I felt. He shrugged his shoulders, as he went out to the street. 'Your infernal magnanimity would break any man's temper. I went upstairs to find Blenkiron, washed and shaven, admiring a pair of bright patent-leather shoes. 'Why, Dick, I've been wearying bad to see you.
I used to envy my old dad that fought at Chattanooga, and never forgot to tell you about it. But I guess Chattanooga was like a scrap in a Bowery bar compared to this. When I meet the old man in Glory he'll have to listen some to me. It was just after Blenkiron spoke that we got a reminder of Stumm's presence. The gun was well laid, for a shell plumped on the near edge of the castro.
The fate which had mercifully preserved us for the first taste of victory would see us through to the end. I remember bundling Blenkiron along the hill to find Sandy. But our news was anticipated. For down our own side-glen came the same broken tumult of men. More; for at their backs, far up at the throat of the pass, I saw horsemen the horsemen of the pursuit.
Then Blenkiron spoke. 'I reckon I can put you wise on that, gentlemen, he said. 'I saw her no later than yesterday. She is a lovely lady. She happens also to be the owner of this house. Both Sandy and I began to laugh. It was too comic to have stumbled across Europe and lighted on the very headquarters of the puzzle we had set out to unriddle. But Blenkiron did not laugh.
The man was very discreet but very mysterious, and he would disappear for a week at a time, leaving no trace. For some unknown reason he couldn't explain why Blenkiron had arrived at the conclusion that Gresson was in touch with Ivery, so he made experiments to prove it. 'I wanted various cross-bearings to make certain, and I got them the night before last.
For the first time in that long vigil I was torn with a sudden regret. 'We must get into the cave before it is full light, I said. 'We had better draw lots for the two to go. The choice fell on one of the Companions and Blenkiron. 'You can count me out, said the latter. 'If it's your wish to find a man to be alive when our friends come up to count their spoil, I guess I'm the worst of the lot.
I caught Blenkiron round the middle, scattering his cards to the winds, and jumped over the parapet. 'Don't apologize, Sister Anne, said he. 'The game was as good as won. But for God's sake drop me, for if you wave me like the banner of freedom I'll get plugged sure and good. My one thought was to get cover for the next minutes, for I had an instinct that our vigil was near its end.
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