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Said they had no record of a Belgian named Maurie and had never heard of him before. I couldn't figure the thing out, and they couldn't; so finally they let me come back to the ship." "Strange," mused Uncle John; "very strange!" "I was so stupid," continued Carg, "that I never thought of Elbl being at the bottom of the affair until I got back and found our launch missing.
They learned from her that Maurie or Henri, as she insisted he was named had several times escaped from her house at night, while she was asleep, and returned at daybreak in the morning, and this information led them to suspect he had managed to have several secret conferences with Lieutenant Elbl previous to their flight.
They stowed her away in the bow, under Henderson's care, and threatened the children with dire punishment if they moved from under her shadow. Then the launch sped out into the bay and away toward Dunkirk. Three days had brought many changes to the hospital ship Arabella. Of the original batch of patients only Lieutenant Elbl, the German, and Andrew Denton now remained.
Both were solemnly smoking their pipes. The captain rose as the general entered, while Elbl gave his visitor a military salute. "So you are better?" asked the Frenchman. Beth repeated this in English to Carg, who repeated it in German to Elbl. Yes, the wounded man was doing very well. "Will you keep him here much longer?" was the next question, directed to Mr. Merrick.
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