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"All fair fights, my dear fellow," he said more mildly, "if I hadn't been a boastful, drunken sot, you wouldn't have heard of 'em you wouldn't, curse you. I was mad! I had you in my hand like that!" He closed a not over-clean fist under van Heerden's nose. "I saw it all, all, I saw you bullying the poor devil, shaking some secret out of him, I saw you knife him " "Hush!" hissed van Heerden.
He put out his hand and Stanford gripped it. "You're a great man, sir," he breathed. The old man chuckled. "And you may even be a great detective," he said. "In five minutes your Mr. Lassimus White will be here. You suggested I should send for him who is he, by the way?" "The managing director of Punsonby's. A friend of van Heerden's and a shareholder in his Great Adventure."
His eyes glittered with unnatural brilliance, his hands, discoloured and uncleanly, moved nervously and were never still. "I'm Bridgers," he said again. "I'm van Heerden's best man rather a come down for the best analytical chemist that the school ever turned out, eh? Doing odd jobs for a dirty Deutscher!" He walked to the door, opened it and listened, then tiptoed across the room to her.
Van Heerden is going to keep under cover, and he is after something bigger than my young life." "Is Milsom with him?" "He is the weak link in van Heerden's scheme," Beale said. "Somehow van Heerden doesn't strike me as a good team leader, and what little I have seen of Milsom leads me to the belief that he is hardly the man to follow the doctor's lead blindly.
The British retreated, leaving their wounded behind. Van Heerden himself was dangerously wounded. He was carried off the field by his wife and servants and laid up in his house. A few days after the column to which the patrol belonged arrived at Van Heerden's farm.
So far as I can ascertain from Professor Heyler, an old German who was in van Heerden's service and who seems a fairly honest man, the doctor nearly lost the culture, and it was only by sending out small quantities to various seedy scientists and getting them to experiment in the cultivation of the germ under various conditions that he found the medium in which they best flourish.
The reason you know nothing about this syndicate of van Heerden's is because you had a suspicion that it was being formed for an illegal purpose please don't interrupt me you know nothing because you did not want to know. I doubt even whether you deceived yourself. You saw a chance of making big money, Mr. White, and big money has always had an attraction for you.
There was something about van Heerden's attitude which struck Beale as strange. He was standing in the exact spot he had stood when the detective had addressed him. It seemed as if something rooted him to the spot. He did not move even when the ambulance men were lifting the body nor when the police were taking particulars of the circumstances of the death.
"What she wishes. If van Heerden's scheme goes through, if throughout the world the crops are destroyed and only that which lies under Germany's hand is spared, what must we pay? Every penny we have taken from Germany; every cent of her war costs must be returned to her in exchange for wheat." "Impossible!" "Why impossible? There is no limit to the price of rarities.
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