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"We cross the Brunig Pass by motor. That really is like flying, isn't it?" "To Lucerne?" demanded Robin, still hazily. "No, no! That would be madness. We shall avoid Lucerne. Miles and miles to the north we will find a safe retreat for a day or two. Then there will be a journey by rail to to your own city of Vienna, Mr. Schmidt. You "
"The risks are too great. Seeker and your friend must follow as best they can." "They are bound to be here in a minute," objected Savaroff. Von Brünig turned on him with an angry gleam in his blue eyes. "I shall not wait," he repeated harshly. "The future of Germany is of more importance than their convenience." McMurtrie stepped forward, serene and imperturbable as ever.
Von Brünig and Savaroff moved up alongside of him, and I stood there confronting the three of them. "You have heard my choice," I said. McMurtrie laughed. It was precisely the way in which I should imagine the devil laughs on the rare occasions when he is still amused. "You are evidently a bad judge of character, Mr. Lyndon," he said.
She had had perfectly, at those whimsical moments on the Brünig, the half-shamed sense of turning her back on such opportunities for real improvement as had figured to her, from of old, in connection with the continental tour, under the general head of "pictures and things"; and now she knew for what she had done so.
He turned away with a shrug on his broad shoulders, while McMurtrie sat down at the table and hastily wrote a few lines which he showed to von Brünig. The other nodded his head approvingly. "That will do very well," he said. "It will be safe if any one else should find it. Seeker knows where to come to." McMurtrie put the note in an envelope which he placed in the centre of the table.
"Their names are Seeker and von Brünig, and they're living in a small bungalow on Sheppey. They are supposed to be artists. As a matter of fact, von Brünig is a captain in the Germany Navy. I don't know who the other man is; I think he has been sent over specially about the powder."
"A thousand devils!" cried von Brünig furiously: "what does all this nonsense mean? We may have the police here any moment. Knock him on the head, the fool, and " "Stop!" The single word cut in with startling clearness. We all spun round in the direction of the sound, and there, standing in the window just between the two curtains, was the solitary figure of Mr. Bruce Latimer.
George, "unless we go over the Brunig Pass on foot." "Well," said Rollo, "let us do that." "We might possibly do that," continued Mr. George, still looking intently at his map. "We should have to go over the Brunig to Lungern on foot, with a horse for our baggage.
Thus it was that on this wondrous day on the Brünig the spell of watching her had grown more than ever irresistible; a proof of what or of a part of what Mrs. Stringham had, with all the rest, been reduced to. She had almost the sense of tracking her young friend as if at a given moment to pounce.
It was the flattest lie I have ever told; but I managed to get it off with surprising ease. It is astonishing what rapid strides one can make in the art of perjury with a very little practice. Savaroff gave a grunt of disappointment, and McMurtrie turned to von Brünig, who was frowning thoughtfully, and made some almost inaudible remark in German.
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