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I believe it's working out as I thought it would. Dollmann daren't confess to that, because, morality apart, it could only have been prompted by extreme necessity that is, by the knowledge that you were really dangerous, and not merely an inquisitive stranger. Now we know his motive; but they don't yet. The position of that book proves it. 'He shoved it in? 'To prevent them seeing it.
'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.
'His sufferings are over, I retorted. 'I've mutinied deserted haven't I, Davies? I caught Davies gazing with solemn gaucherie at Miss Dollmann. 'Oh, what? he stammered. I explained in English. 'Oh, yes, Carruthers has to go home, he said, in his vile lingo. No one spoke for a moment, and even von Brüning had no persiflage ready.
Plenty of local galliots travel it, but strangers never, I should say. Perhaps at he most an occasional foreign yacht gropes in at one of the gaps between the islands for shelter from bad weather, and is precious lucky to get in safe. Once again, it was my fad to like such places, and Dollmann cleared me out. He's not a German, but he's in with Germans, and naval Germans too.
Well, I'm sure it wasn't the commander 'Why not? said Böhme. 'It's difficult to explain an intuition, say I am sure he stood up for us; and I don't think it was Herr Dollmann, because he knows Davies already, and he's always on the spot; and, in short I'll swear it was Herr Böhme, who is leaving early to-morrow. and had never seen either of us.
I gazed to windward, too, and now saw a scrap of white in the distance, in sharp relief. 'Small standing lug and jib; it's her, right enough, said Davies to himself, in a sort of nervous stammer. 'Who? What? 'Medusa's dinghy. He handed, or rather pushed, me the glasses, still gazing. 'Dollmann? I exclaimed. 'No, it's hers the one she always sails. She's come to meet m , us.
'Mr ? said Dollmann. 'Carruthers, I answered, distinctly. 'I was with Davies in the boat just now, but I don't think he introduced me. And now he has forgotten again, I added, dryly, turning towards Davies, who, having presented himself to Fräulein Dollmann, was looking feebly from her to von Brüning, the picture of tongue-tied awkwardness.
A few speculators got them up and made money themselves out of land and contracts, while the shareholders they had hoodwinked starved. 'There's something in that, I conceded to this bigoted old conservative; 'my sister at Langeoog rents her lodging-house from a man named Dollmann; they say he owns a heap of land about. I saw his yacht once pink velvet and electric light inside. they say
Their movements had kept me ducking my head pretty frequently, but I now grew almost reckless as to whether I was seen or not. In a few moments I sank from depth to depth of scepticism. Where were my mines, torpedoes, and submarine boats, and where my imperial conspirators? Was gold after all at the bottom of this sordid mystery? Dollmann after all a commonplace criminal?
On another chair, with its back actually tilted against the window, Dollmann. Such were the principal features of the scene; for details I had to make another inspection. Stooping low, I crept back, quiet as a cat, till I was beneath the window, and, as I calculated, directly behind Dollmann's chair. Then with great caution I raised my head.
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