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This is no small matter, Brencherly. Honesty is the best policy and there are rewards and punishments." The strain of grief and anxiety had set its mark on Gard's face. His deadly earnestness and evident effort at self-control sent a thrill of pitying admiration through the detective's hardened indifference.
When she had served him she sidled back to Gard's table with a doubting, half-disappointed air. "You're fooling me." She stuck her tongue out on her upper lip in peasant bashfulness. "No, I'll be there as sure as I'm now paying for the ticket." He filled her fat hand with the coins which it could hardly hold. She went away happy.
Just the type to play havoc with a girl. What place was there left for the mild, unpretending Gard? And still she deserved far better than Von Tielitz. Perhaps it was this feeling that added to her unhappiness. His vulgarity! To talk as Von Tielitz did about one who might become his wife, and to a stranger, was a new form of German brutality. It steadied and deepened Gard's admiration for her.
He usually lunched in some one of these well-known resorts where he became acquainted with the personnel and frequenters. It was Deming who introduced him to the inn where Fritzi served, whom Von Tielitz and Messer had urged upon Gard's attentions. Jim had learned of it through the former. Imagine the tiniest of restaurants. It was scarcely large enough for six small tables.
You tell him I say so," and he pouched his discounted piece of evidence and turned and went, leaving Nance with a heavy heart. For, as Peter said, she knew what the Sark men were a law unto themselves, and slow to move out of the deep-cut grooves of the past, but, once stirred to boiling point, capable of going to any lengths without consideration of consequences. And therein lay Gard's peril.
The German text books that came in Gard's way proved the national craze for what was Deutsch, echt Deutsch, to the exclusion of what was not. It was almost a ferocity of inbreeding instruction. It created the furor Teutonicus. The Hohenzollerns used education as a prod to madden the Germans.
Please won't you take the Vandyke?" Gard's hand fell on the boy's shoulder with impressive kindliness. "No," he said quietly, "I can't do that, much as I appreciate your wanting to give it to me. I have a sentiment, a feeling about that picture.
His newspapers display, likewise, a disagreeable officiousness, being nearly always, to some extent, bureaucratic organs. They are lords, not servants, of the public. They do not appear to want your business, your money. Gard's imperfect German balked him, too.
When she did permit herself a few hours off duty she did it with a whole-hearted enjoyment approaching the naïve abandon of childhood which, to Gard's sober restraint, when he was graciously permitted to witness it, was wholly charming. By degrees, and especially after her father's tragic death, Nance's feelings towards the stranger had perceptibly changed.
We are always glad to return favors conferred upon us." Gard's heart stood still. A sweeping regret invaded him that he had not slain the man when his hands were upon him. He threw the note aside and turned again to Mrs. Marteen's letter. "You see," he read, "there is nothing for me to do. A wireless to Dorothy? She has doubtless had the information since the hour of my departure. What can I do?
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