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The visit to London meant a minimum absence of forty-eight hours, counting from Amsterdam; that is to say, that by travelling for two nights and one day, and devoting the other day to investigating Dollmann's past, it was humanly possible for me to be back on the Frisian coast on the evening of the 25th. Yes, I could be at Norden, if that was the 'rendezvous', at 7 p.m. But what a scramble!
'Does it matter? He must know already that Dollmann's a scoundrel. 'So we've been supposing; but we may be wrong. We're still in the dark as to Dollmann's position towards these Germans. They may not even know he's English, or they may know that and not know his real name and past. What effect your story will have on their relations with him we can't forecast.
I know we wanted a free hand, but we've got to go to Norderney some time, and if Dollmann's away 'Why did you harp on Miss Dollmann? said Davies. We had worked round, through idle recrimination, to the real point of departure. I knew Davies was not himself, and would not return to himself till the heart of the matter was reached. But directly you really want me you turn round and go for me.
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.
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.
We found nothing suspicious, nothing that suggested a really adequate motive for Dollmann's treachery. 1 became impatient, and was for pushing on more quickly westward. Davies still clung to his theory, but the same feeling influenced him. 'It's something to do with these channels in the sand, he persisted, 'but I'm afraid, as you say, we haven't got at the heart of the mystery.
'I'll swear it was at the end before. 'That doesn't matter. Anything else? 'By Jove! where's Dollmann's book? 'It's here all right, but not where it should be. I had been reading it, you remember, overnight, and in the morning had replaced it in full view among the other books.
For, of course, my excuses were meant chiefly for his consumption, and Fräulein Dollmann's. That the lady I addressed them to found them unpalatable was not my fault. 'Then you sat in your wretched little cabin all day? she persisted. 'All day, I said, brazenly; 'it was the safest thing to do. And I looked again at Fräulein Dollmann, frankly and squarely.
If we won, and found out 'what he was at', we must at all costs conceal our success from his German friends, and detach him from them before he was compromised. If it had not been for the discovery of Dollmann's identity, we should have found it as hard a nut to crack as ever. But this discovery was illuminating.
Dollmann's 'report' was evidently over, and I rarely heard his voice; Grimm's occasionally, von Brüning's and Böhme's frequently; but, as before, it was the latter only that I could ever count on for an intelligible word. For, unfortunately, the villains of the piece plotted without any regard to dramatic fitness or to my interests.
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