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Underhill's face at first bore only an expression of mild amusement, but as Edestone evidenced such a deadly earnestness, he showed more interest and said with a rather nervous laugh: "Look here, old chap, don't blow the entire English navy out of the water while you're closeted here with me.
When they were comfortably seated in the Colonel's private apartments, and had provided themselves with drinks and cigars, the equerry leaned toward his charge a trifle impressively. "Mr. Edestone," he said, "you do not look like a chap who would lose his nerve if he suddenly found himself in a position that was more or less dangerous.
"That would perhaps be the best way to leave the matter," approved Rockstone. "We are agreed then, it seems," said Graves, and they left together for Buckingham Palace. On coming out of the Admiralty, Edestone, a trifle preoccupied, was about to take the taxi with the rather sleepy driver which stood at the head of the line. But the thought came to him, where shall I go?
When Lawrence came down, he said: "I got him and he answered me. I am sure someone was trying to cut in. I could not tell whether he could get us or not, but he was trying to mix us up." Edestone worked with his little book for a few minutes, and then read aloud: "Passed over Leipsic up 5000. Have been seen. Will stand by at 30, up 10,000."
But I am not what you think I am," and in a very hurried manner, looking about her, she continued, lowering her voice: "I am no traitor to my country, and I know that what my father did he did because he believed it was his duty." "Oh, Princess Wilhelmina!" said Edestone, as if to stop her on this most disagreeable subject. "Please do not call me Princess in that sarcastic manner.
Indeed, the Frenchmen looked upon Edestone as someone almost superhuman a being who had come to establish on earth the dream of their philosophers, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" and they gloried in the good fortune of their sister Republic in having produced and sent to their rescue such a son.
Meanwhile Edestone, having taken leave of Colonel Wyatt, was making his way out of the building, when he found himself accosted in the dimly lighted corridor by a man in civilian clothes whom he recognized as a New York acquaintance of several years' standing. "Well, look who's here!" he greeted Edestone lustily as he extended his hand. "What brings you into the very den of the lion?
But Edestone and his companions were spared the full measure of this sickening sight, as the rapid manoeuvres of the Little Peace Maker compelled them to devote their attention to her. As the great ship descended to within about ten feet of the chimney-tops, men appeared on her lower bridge and dropped over the insulated ladder which extended almost to where the refugees lay.
The covers over the two-wheeled drums were unstrapped so that they could be thrown off at a moment's notice. "You are right," said Edestone, as he and Lawrence stood looking out of one of the windows of the Embassy at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. "They have heard something. I am surprised that we have heard nothing from them today.
But by this time they were at the Britz and the proprietor was bowing them inside, apparently so accustomed to receiving men of distinction with military escort that he did not even notice the lines of trim cavalrymen which drew themselves up on either side of his entrance. "Will you gentlemen dine in the public restaurant?" asked Captain Bright, stepping up to Edestone.
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