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"It means of course that he, too, knows about those Wednesday trips the Hoffs make." Cautiously he opened the door into the public hall. There was no one about. Catlike in swiftness and silence he moved to the Hoff door and inserted his new-made key. It worked perfectly. "Now," he whispered to Jane, "to the roof quick. I must not be taken by surprise.
I had some wax in my hand and made an impression of it right under his nose." "How clever," cried Jane, "but suppose the Hoffs do not go off to-morrow. What will we do then?" "You are taking tea with young Hoff this afternoon, aren't you?" "Yes," said Jane, "that is, he asked me to. I am to meet him at the Biltmore at five."
Fleck, and these men, she told herself, were government officials, something like policemen, only nicer. At any rate, she knew them only in a business way, not socially. If she was to be successful in learning much about the Hoffs about young Mr. Hoff she felt that it was necessary to make them social acquaintances. She must manage to meet Frederic Hoff in some proper way, but how?
The trade of the Im Hoffs' was to be sure of great money value; but by my grand-uncle's will we might not touch it for twenty years. Likewise Master Holzschuher pointed out to us by many an example how wrong it would be, and in especial at this very time, to sell landed estate at any price, that is to say at about one-third of its real worth.
Perhaps it is just a rendezvous where their various agents, the important ones engaged in their damnable work of destruction, come secretly to get their orders from the Hoffs and to receive payment for their hellishness accomplished." "It's all so funny, so perfectly absurd," said Jane with a nervous little laugh. "Absurd," cried Fleck indignantly, "what do you mean? It's frightfully serious."
Is she hurt?" asked the chief anxiously. "I don't know. She has vanished." Jane Strong vanished! The chief's figure became suddenly tensed. That it was more than a mere automobile accident he felt certain now. Shadowing the Hoffs was an occupation that seemed unusually perilous. There flashed into his mind the fate of K-19 murdered almost at the Hoffs' door.
As touching the Tetzels themselves, they made no claim for blood; and for this he was so thankful to them, all his life through, that he gave them his word that he would name Ursula in his testament; whereas he ever hated the Im Hoffs to the end, after that they, on whom he had brought so much vexation by his wilful and haughty temper, took counsel after the judgment as to whether it behooved them not to strip him of their good old name and thrust him forth from their kinship.
He might even come up-stairs once in a while to get orders or do little repair jobs around the apartment. Some day, supposing the people next door were all out, he might even succeed in planting a dictograph so that you could sit there in your room and hear all that was going on and what the Hoffs talked about. That would help a lot.
"Unless," continued Fleck, "there was some special object in sending him here." "You think," said Jane slowly, "they sent him here to this country as a spy." "In our business we dare not think. We cannot merely conjecture. We must prove," said Mr. Fleck. "Maybe the Hoffs are O.K. I do not know. Nobody knows yet. Let me tell you some of the circumstances. This much we do know.
That left only the two Hoffs and one other man against five of them. It was Fleck's intention to try to overpower the trio before the four who had fled returned to aid them. Jane, amazed at her own coolness, stood beside Dean, her revolver out, helping him guard the prisoners.
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