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Then, with my chin buried in my muffler, I sought the darkest corner of the ill-lit combination of bar and waiting-room where, by the tiresome custom in Germany, would-be travellers are penned till their train is ready. Von Brüning I perceived sitting in another corner, with his hat over his eyes and a cigar between his lips.
Meister Lucius & Bruning in Hochst am Main, referred to as Hochst; Leopold Cassella G.m.b.H. in Frankfort; and Kalle & Co., Aktien-Gesellschaft in Biebrich. Each of these six great companies had attained enormous proportions long before the war. Only two other concerns had carried on manufacture on a comparable scale.
'I like Norderney and we might have another sail in your dinghy, fräulein, he blurted out. 'Thank you, she said, in that low dry voice I had heard yesterday; 'but I think I shall not be sailing again it is getting too cold. 'Oh, no! said Davies, 'it's splendid. But she had turned to von Brüning, and took no notice.
Not even Böhme and von Brüning were wholly at one; and as moral distances are reckoned, Davies and I were leagues apart. Sitting between Dollmann and Dollmann's daughter, the living and breathing symbols of the two polar passions he had sworn to harmonize, he kept an equilibrium which, though his aims were nominally mine, I could not attain to.
I am hazy about the farewells, but I think that Dollmann was the most cordial, to me at any rate, and I augured good therefrom. Böhme said he should see me again. Von Brüning, though bound for the harbour also, considered it was far too early to be going yet, and said good-bye. 'You want to talk us over, I remember saying, with the last flicker of gaiety I could muster.
'Yes; but meanwhile, supposing von Brüning sees him before he knows you're back again, and wants to find out the truth about that incident. If I were von Brüning I should say, "By the way, what's become of that young Englishman you decoyed away to the Baltic?" Dollmann would give his version, and von Brüning. having heard ours, would know he was lying, and had tried to drown you.
They were all together aft, three of them, leaning over the taffrail, with their backs turned to me. One was short and stout Böhme unquestionably; the panting and the thud on the planks had prepared me for that, though where he had sprung from I did not know. Two were tall, and one of these must be von Brüning. There ought to be four, I reckoned; but three were all I could see.
'Von Brüning told me about you, said Dollmann, ignoring my illusion, 'but I was not quite sure of the name. No; it was not an occasion for formalities, was it? He gave a sudden, mirthless laugh.
Davies looked blank, but von Brüning had turned to me. 'We never dreamed there would be thieves among these islands, I said, 'but the other night I nearly caught a fellow in the act. He thought the yacht was empty. I described the affair in detail, and with what humour I could. Our host was amused, and apologetic for the islanders.
At some time between this and then, I suppose, he came to grief disgrace, flight, exile. When did it happen? 'They've been here three years; von Brüning said so. 'It was long before that. She has talked German from a child. What's her age, do you think nineteen or twenty? 'About that. 'Say she was four when this book was published. The crash must have come not long after.
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