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For all that success had rewarded his effrontery, Lanyard's mind was far from easy during the subsequent hour that he spent before attempting to rejoin Lucy Shannon, dodging, ducking and doubling across Paris and back again, with design to confuse and confound any jackals of the Pack that might have picked up his trail as adventitiously as Ekstrom had.
Eels, hermaphroditism of. Egerton, Sir P., on the use of the antlers of deer; on the pairing of red deer; on the bellowing of stags. Eggs, hatched by male fishes. Egret, Indian, sexes and young of. Egrets, breeding plumage of; white. Ehrenberg, on the mane of the male Hamadryas baboon. Ekstrom, M., on Harelda glacialis. Elachista rufocinerea, habits of male.
Midway down the third flight he pulled up to one side of the landing, and reconnoitred. It was on the next floor below, the first above the street, that Ekstrom had stopped. But in what quarter thereof? The exigency forbade the risk of one false turn. If Lanyard were to take Ekstrom unawares it must be at the first cast.
And I knew Ekstrom had not succeeded in stealing back what he had sold to Colonel Stanistreet, knew he was guiltless in fact if not in deed." "But how could you know that?" "Because I was there, in the room, when he entered it after it had been shut up for the night." Conscious of her hands that fluttered like wounded things to her bosom, he looked away in misery.
It seemed hardly possible that the French Minister of War could be either so stupid or so ignorant.... But with a patient shrug, he proceeded to elucidate. "Captain Ekstrom," he said, "but recently succeeded in photographing these plans and took them to London to sell to the English. Unfortunately for himself unhappily for perfidious Albion!
He strode briskly toward the door to the boulevard, out of the corner of his eye aware that Ekstrom, taken by surprise, half-started from his chair, then sank back. Two paces from the entrance the girl checked, murmured in French, "Oh, my handkerchief!" and turned briskly back. Without pause, as though he hadn't heard, Lanyard threw the door wide and swung out, turning directly to the spy.
He lay for hours staring wide-eyed into darkness, hearkening to the steady throbbing of the engines, unable to dismiss the thought that their every revolution brought him so much nearer to America, so much the nearer to his hour with Ekstrom. In vain he sought to fatigue his senses by over-indulgence in his weakness for gambling.
But there was this distinction to be drawn between their attitudes, that whereas Lanyard's gaze challenged, the German's was sullenly defiant. And presently Lanyard felt his heart stir with relief: the spy's glance had winced. "Ekstrom," the adventurer said quietly, "if you fire, I'll get you before I fall. That's a simple statement of fact."
Therefore I waited till the waiter asked for your bill at the caisse, then stationed myself outside." "But why? Can you tell me what you thought to accomplish?" "You know well," Ekstrom muttered. "After what happened in London ... it's your life or mine!" "Spoken like a true villain!
I tell you I have seen Ekstrom within this last month, alive and serving the Fatherland as the genius of that system of espionage which keeps the enemy advised of your every move, down to the least considerable that system which makes it possible for the Boche to greet every regiment by name when it moves up to serve its time in your advanced trenches." "You amaze me!"
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