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'It's a magnificent place for sailing, said Davies, looking wistfully out over the storm-speckled grey of the North Sea. He underwent some more chaff, and the talk passed to our cruising adventures in the Baltic and the estuaries. Von Brüning cross-examined us with the most charming urbanity and skill.
'That's settled, then! A dogcart was standing before the inn door in readiness for von Brüning. I was curious about Esens and his business there. Esens, he said, was the principal town of the district, four miles inland. 'I have to go there, he volunteered, 'about a poaching case a Dutchman trawling inside our limits. That's my work, you know police duty. Had the words a deeper meaning?
They are diving for money out of an old wreck. Yes, we had heard about it. 'Of course you have. Father is a director of the company, and Commander von Brüning takes great interest in it; they took me down in a diving-bell once. I murmured, 'Indeed! and Davies sawed laboriously at the bread.
True, such information as we had about the French wreck and his own connection with it was placed most readily at our disposal by von Brüning; but I took it to be information calculated only to forestall suspicion, since he was aware that we already associated him with Dollmann, possibly also with Grimm, and it was only likely that in the ordinary course we should learn that the trio were jointly concerned in Memmert.
To my own ears my voice sounded husky and distant. 'Always ducks, laughed von Brüning. 'No luck, I suppose? 'No, said Davies; 'but it ought to be a good time after sunset 'What, with a rising tide and the banks covered? 'We saw some, said Davies, sullenly. 'I tell you what, my zealous young sportsmen, you're rash to leave your boat at anchor here after dark without a light.
I instantly noticed a faint red weal relieving the ivory of his bald head; and I had suffered too often in the same quarter myself to mistake its origin, namely, our cabin doorway. 'This is the other young explorer, Böhme, said von Brüning. 'Herr Davies kidnapped him a month ago, and bullied and starved him into submission; they'll drown together yet. I believe his sufferings have been terrible.
Davies did his duty with precipitation, and blushed when he put his question, in a way that horrified me, till I remembered that his embarrassment was due, and would be ascribed, to another cause. 'Herr Dollmann is away still, I think, said von Brüning. 'Yes, said Davies, shortly. 'Well, I'm sure he's away. But his yacht is back, I believe and Fräulein Dollmann, I suppose.
It was the fact that a fragment of it, a balk of curved timber garnished with some massive bolts, lay on the table, and was evidently an object of earnest interest. The diver had turned and was arguing with gestures over it; von Brüning and Grimm were pressing another view. The diver shook his head frequently, finally shrugged his shoulders, made a salutation, and left the room.
Outside we joined Davies, who was knitting his brow over prospects. 'It just comes of going into places like this, he said to me. 'We may be stuck here for days. Too much wind to tow out with the dinghy, and too narrow a channel to beat in. Von Brüning was ready with a new proposal. 'Why didn't I think of it before? he said. 'I'll tow you out in my launch.
Now, if you really wish for sport, I could help you. I could get you a trustworthy 'Oh, it's too good of you, stammered Davies, in a more unhappy accent than usual. 'We can easily find one for ourselves. A man at Wangeroog offered 'Oh, did he? interrupted von Brüning, laughing. 'I'm not surprised. You don't know the Frieslanders. A stranger is a poacher.
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