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Updated: June 28, 2025
But I was thinking of the news I had heard that afternoon from my Ore Chief that Captain Grauble's vessel had returned to Berlin. Anxious to renew my acquaintance with Captain Grauble at the earliest opportunity, I sent my social secretary to invite him to meet me for a dinner engagement in one of the popular halls of the Free Level.
"But if I should go with you, the people of your world would welcome you but they would imprison me or kill me as a spy." "No," and I smiled as I answered, "they do not kill women." During four brief days that remained until Capt. Grauble's vessel was due to depart my every hour was full of hurried preparations for my survey of the Arctic mines.
With Grauble's help I now bound von Kufner to the staunch metal leg of the bunk and we left him alone in the narrow room to ponder on the meaning of what he had heard. Outside Grauble led me over to the instrument board where the mate was stationed. "Any unusual message?" asked Grauble. "None," said the mate.
I thought of all the usual tricks of disguising her as a man, of smuggling her as a stowaway amidst the cargo, but Grauble's insistence upon the impossibility of such plans had made it all too clear that any such wild attempt would lead to the undoing of us all. If escape were possible with Marguerite ! But cold reason said that escape was improbable enough for me alone.
About her neck was a chain of blue stones linked with platinum. She was dressed in a mottled gown of light blue and gold, and so subtly blended were the colours that she and her gown seemed to be part of the same created thing. But on Grauble's left sat a woman whose gown was flashing crimson slashed with jetty black.
"I had to drug him," said Grauble's voice, "because he was so violent with fear when I had him manacled that I thought he might attempt to beat out his brains." "Let me see his papers," said a strange voice. After a brief interval the same voice spoke again "These are identical with the description given by His Majesty's secretary.
Meanwhile unbeknown to me the sailing date of Grauble's vessel was advanced, and he departed to the Arctic.
Then rolling him over I planted my knee on his back while I ripped a sheet from the bunk and bound his feet. From without I heard Grauble's voice in command: "Close the hatch." Then I felt the vessel quiver with machinery in motion and I knew that we were moving along the tunnel toward the sea. Grauble appeared again in the door of the cabin.
But recalling the men who had done so much to fill me with hope and faith in the righteousness of my mission, I again changed my plan and sought out Dr. Zimmern and Col. Hellar and arranged for them to meet me that evening at Grauble's quarters. At the hour appointed I, who had first arrived at the apartment, sat waiting for the arrival of Zimmern.
The voice of the mate spoke at the door: "Remain quiet inside," he said, and a key turned and clicked the bolt of the lock. The tense minutes passed. Again the key turned in the door and the mate stuck his head inside. "Come quick," he said to me. I followed him into Capt. Grauble's cabin, but saw Grauble nowhere.
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