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'Good evening, sir, said a sailor, who was fending off the yacht with a boat-hook. 'It's Commander von Brüning's launch. I think the gentlemen want to see you. Before we could answer, an exclamation of: 'Why, here they are! came from the deck of the Dulcibella, and the dim form of von Brüning him self emerged from the companion-way.
'I say, Herr Dollmann, said Davies, 'won't you stay on board with us while we dress? There's a lot to tell you, and and we can follow on with you when we're ready. Dollmann had not yet stepped into the launch. 'With pleasure, he said; but there followed an ominous silence, broken by von Brüning. 'Oh, come along, Dollmann, and let them alone, he said brusquely.
'This is interesting, said von Brüning, 'in what sense? 'It begins to dawn on me that you made fools of us at Bensersiel. Don't you remember, Davies, what an interest he took in all our doings? I wonder if he feared our exploring propensities might possibly lead us to Memmert? 'Upon my word, this is the blackest ingratitude. I thought I made myself particularly agreeable to you.
Your man would have made slight errors as to time and place. 'You said they were odd in their manner, didn't you, Davies? I put in. 'Look here, this is very kind of Commander von Brüning; but hadn't we better be certain of my plans before settling down to shoot? Let's push on direct to Norderney and get that letter of mine, and then decide. But we shan't see you again, I suppose, commander?
'I dare say; but directly after breakfast the fog came on, and well, one cannot leave a yacht alone in a fog, I said, with professional solidity. Von Brüning pricked up his ears at this. 'I'll be hanged if that was your maxim, he laughed; 'you're too fond of the shore! I sent him a glance of protest, as though to say: 'What's the use of your warning if you won't let me act on it?
Had it been necessary I was prepared to encourage such a view, admitting that the cloth von Brüning wore had made his connexion with Memmert curious, and had suggested to Davies, for I should have put it on him, with his naval enthusiasms, that the wreck-works were really naval-defence works.
I remembered conversations with the natives in the inn, scraps of the post-master's pompous loquacity, talks of growing trade, of bricks and grain passing from the interior to the islands: from another source was it the grocer of Wangeroog? of expansion of business in the islands themselves as bathing resorts; from another source again von Brüning himself, surely of Dollmann's personal activity in the development of the islands.
At the mention of von Brüning she showed no emotion of any sort; on the contrary, she went out of her way, from an innocent motive that anyone could have guessed, to show that she could talk about him with dispassionate detachment. 'He came to see us when you were here last, didn't he? she said to Davies. 'He often comes. He goes with father to Memmert sometimes. You know about Memmert?
I didn't mean "everything". He's plotting with Germans, or why did Grimm spy on us, and von Brüning cross-examine us? We've got to find out what he's at, as well as who he is. And as to her what do you think of her now? I made my amende heartily. 'Innocent and ignorant, was my verdict.
His news was that the Blitz's steam-cutter had come in on the morning tide, and he had met von Brüning when marketing at the inn. Secondly, the Kormoran had also come in, and was moored close by.
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