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Updated: May 2, 2025
You must observe everything closely, be able to put two and two together and use your common sense. Do you know the Hoffs by sight?" "Only by sight." "They live in the next apartment on your floor, do they not?" "Yes. Young Mr. Hoff's bedroom is the room next to mine." "Good," cried Mr. Fleck. "Can you hear anything from the next apartment, any conversations?" "No, only muffled sounds."
As briefly as she could she described the scene she had witnessed in the early morning hours from her bedroom window, the man following the younger Hoff, Hoff's discovery and pursuit of him around the corner and of his return alone. "And in the morning," she concluded, "they found a man's body in the side street. He had a bullet through his heart. There was a revolver in his hand.
'Here's to fair Margery! one day, on every noble gentleman's lips; and on the morrow: 'Here's to sweet Ursula! In some folks it grows inwardly, as it were a polypus, and of such, woe is me, am I. My love, if you would know the truth, my lord Baron von Welemisl, love such I have known I gave once for all to that man Herdegen Schopper; it has been his from the time when, in my short little skirts, I learnt to write; and so it has ever been, till the hour when worthy Dame Henneleinlein, the noble Junker's new cousin it is enough to make one die of laughing! when that illustrious lady whispered the truth in my ear that her intending kinsman had thrown me over, and, with me, old Im Hoff's wealth, for the sake of a scrivener's wench.
"What does the '97' at the end mean?" questioned Jane timidly, a little bit frightened at his outburst, yet more than ever realizing the vast importance of his work and hers. "Oh, that's nothing. Probably old Hoff's number. Most spies are known just by numbers." "Yes, of course," said Jane, flushing as she recalled that she herself was now "K-19." Was she a spy? Was Mr. Fleck a chief of spies?
Jane, her face blanching, held the receiver in wavering hands for a moment before she could muster courage to answer. She had recognized Frederic Hoff's voice speaking. What could he want with her now? "It is Miss Strong," she managed to answer. "This is Frederic Hoff. May I come in for a moment? It is most important." Again Jane hesitated.
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