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He must have had an advance tip of some sort. If so, he'll have a line of retreat." Then Coburn frowned. Not quite plausible, come to think of it. But Dillon had certainly known about the raid. He was set to take pictures, and he hadn't been surprised. One would have expected Greek Army photographers on hand to take pictures of a raid of which they had warning.
It wasn't even a long one for Coburn, but it was much worse than he'd thought. The crevices for handholds were rare, and footholds were almost non-existent. There were times when he felt he was holding on by his fingernails. Dillon seemed to have made it with perfect ease, but Coburn found it exhausting. Fifty feet up he came to the place where Dillon had vanished.
"If Henri has taken over Coburn's job he may go down to the mill as Coburn did. Hadn't we better wait and see?"
The friends dined with the Coburns for the last time that evening. Mr. Coburn was a little late for the meal, saying he had waited on the wharf to see the loading completed, and that all the cargo was now aboard, and that the Girondin would drop down to sea on the flood tide in the early morning. "We shall have her company so far," Hilliard remarked.
"Of course," Hilliard went on, "we can see now we made a frightful mess of things by calling on the Coburns or letting Mr. Coburn know we were about, but at the time it seemed the wisest thing." "It was the only thing," Merriman asserted positively. "We didn't know then there was anything wrong, and besides, how could we have hidden the launch?" "Well, it's done anyway.
The General was in uproarious good humor. He came in babbling completely uncomprehensible English. There was Helena. She smiled warmly at Coburn. She went at once to Janice. "How do you do?" she said in her prettily accented English. "I have missed not working for your husband, but this is my fiancé!"
I didn't find any notes, you know, and besides it would be so dreadful acting as a decoy " "There's something more important than that," Merriman burst in indignantly. "Do you realize, Mr. Inspector, that if Miss Coburn were to send that letter she would put herself in very real danger?" "Not at all," Willis answered quietly. "You have not heard my whole scheme.
"If it bleeds, I'll apologize and freely admit I'm crazy! But if it doesn't ..." The thing-that-was-not-Dillon raised its eyebrows. "It wouldn't," it said coolly. "You do know. What follows?" "You're something from space," accused Coburn, "sneaking around Earth trying to find out how to conquer us! You're an Invader! You're trying out weapons.
He spoke of reporting what he had learned to the police, and if I hadn't agreed to help him he would have done so. I wanted at all costs to avoid that, because if there was going to be any trouble I wanted Mr. Coburn to be out of it first. Believe me or not, that was my only reason for agreeing." "I do believe you," she said, "but finish what you have to tell me."
The route to Amherst lay through Pepperell, Hollis, and Milford. Other drivers were John Chase, Joel Shattuck, William Shattuck, Moses Titus, Frank Shattuck, David Coburn, Chickering, Thomas Emory, and William Kemp, Jr. The sad recollection of an accident at Littleton, resulting in the death of Silas Bullard, is occasionally revived by some of the older people.
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