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Presently, in the same disagreeable, distinct, nasal, and measured voice, the speaker resumed the message: "Until last evening it has been taken for granted that the American Intelligence Officer, McKay, and his companion, Miss Erith, made insane through suffering after having drunk at a spring the water of which we had prepared for them according to plan, had either jumped or fallen from the eastward cliffs of Les Errues into the gulf through which flows the Staubbach.
There at Erith is a steam yacht ready to start at a moment's notice; she has steam up now, one hundred pounds pressure to the square inch in her boilers; her captain's waiting, her crew ready a greyhound in leash; she can do fifteen knots an hour without being pressed. "If one started now one could breakfast in France, at Boulogne, let us say, or Dieppe; one could lunch at St. Malo or St.
Fox at Brookes's, whom I remember at Drnmmington, when I was a little girl, in a buff waistcoat and black satin small-clothes. My brother Erith never played as a young man, nor sate up late he had no health for it; but my boy must do as everybody does, you know.
To Evelyn he said: "Better step back here behind this ledge." And, when McKay had followed, he told them exactly what had happened. "I'm afraid it's not going to be very easy going for you," he added. With the alarming knowledge that they had to do once more with their uncanny enemies of Isla Water, McKay and Evelyn Erith looked at each other rather grimly.
Vaux, who was in love with another girl, took another uneasy look at her, sideways, then picked up his unlighted cigar and browsed upon it. "Yes," he said nervously, "this is one of those accursed code-ciphers. They always route them through to me. Why don't they notify the five " "Are you going to turn THIS over to the Postal Inspection Service?" "What do you think about it, Miss Erith?
"Do you know anything about him, Miss Erith?" inquired the distant voice. "Yes yes!... I don't know whether I do.... I have heard the that name a similar name " Her mind was in a tumult now. Could such a thing happen? It was utterly impossible! The voice on the wire continued: "The police have been here but they are not interested in the case, as no robbery occurred.
After he had given thanks to me for my kind visit and good counsel, on which he seems to set much by, I left him, and so away to my Bezan againe, and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique," upon the strife between rhetorique and its enemies, very pleasant. So, after supper, to sleepe, and sayled all night, and came to Erith before break of day. 18th.
The Tom Bowling, opening Jenningtree Point, ported her helm and floated in all her pride of white canvas and radiant metal and fathom and a half of shining bunting at her masthead into Erith Reach.
At the same moment a chauffeur buried in coon-skins moved forward touching his cap: "Miss Erith's car is here, sir; Miss Erith expects you." McKay hesitated, scowling now in his perplexity; passed his quivering hand slowly across his face, then turned, and looked at the waiting car drawn up at the gutter. Behind the frosty window Miss Erith gave him a friendly smile.
He was standing in the walled garden switching a limber trout-rod when Miss Erith came upon him next morning, a tall straight young man in his kilts, supple and elegant as the lancewood rod he was testing. Conscious of a presence behind him he turned, came toward her in the sunlight, the sun crisping his short hair.
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