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Only the fern fronds quivered where spray rained across them; and the only sounds that stirred were the crystalline clash of icy rapids and the high whisper of the leaves in Les Errues. And, as he stood motionless, every sense and instinct on edge, his eyes encountered something out of key with this lovely, sombre masterpiece of God.
Of these and the trinkets of the late Sir W. Blint they made two flat packets, leaving one of them unsealed to receive the brief letter which McKay had begun: "Dear Lady Blint It is not necessary to ask the wife of Sir W. Blint to have courage. He died as he had lived a fine and fearless British sportsman. His death was painless. He lies in the forest of Les Errues. I enclose a map for you.
"If our understanding with a certain neutral Power be made public, that also would spell disaster for Germany. "The situation hangs by a hair, the fate of the world is suspended above the forest of Les Errues." On the 14th the process of infiltration began.
I saw the tracks in the moss, which was still stirring where the foot had pressed." "Dare you risk a shot in Les Errues, Kay?" "I don't think I'd hesitate." After a silence: "Why don't you rest? You must be dead tired," she said. And he felt a slight pressure of her fingers drawing him. So he laid aside his work, dropped upon his blanket, and turned on his left side, looking at her.
The formula distributed to all operators in the Intelligence Department throughout Hundom, and wherever Boche spies had filtered into civilised lands, was this: "Two enemy secret agents have succeeded in penetrating the forest of Les Errues. One is a man, the other a woman. "Both are Americans.
And, knowing no other region, had remained there, and for the first time, or at least after a long interval of captivity and dependence on man, it had discovered what liberty was and with liberty the necessity to struggle for existence. An airman, watching Dresslin's thoughtful features, said: "You never found out who that Englishman was, did you? "No." "Did our agents search Les Errues?"
They only know where to go for kind treatment and security. And tamed birds, even those species domesticated for centuries, know only one impulse that draws them toward any human protector the desire for food. Could this eagle remember for a whole year that the man who lay dead somewhere in the dusky wilderness of Les Errues had once been kind to him and had fed him?
After a while, as no Allied plane appeared, time lagged with the Boche, and he came to look for this lone eagle which arrived always at the same hour in the sky above Les Errues, soared there hour after hour, then departed, flapping slowly westward until lost in the flames of sunset.
And that is what McKay had been looking for a way out of the Forbidden Forest of Les Errues to the table-land below, where, through a cleft still more profound, rushed the black Staubbach under an endless mist of icy spray. She must make up her mind quickly; the two men were drawing away from her almost out of sight now.
Probably, also, it had been taught to follow its master; and, indeed, had followed in one superb plunge earthward in the wake of a dead man in a stricken plane. But WAS this the same bird? For argument, suppose it was. Then why did it still hang over Les Errues? Affection for a dead master? Only a dog could possibly show such devotion, such constancy. And besides, birds are incapable of affection.
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