hofgaard

Updated: April 30, 2025

'I walked, I said. I did not want to have to speak, for I was too tired. I wanted to watch Ivery's face. Blenkiron gathered up his Patience cards, slipped them into a little leather case and put it in his pocket. 'I've one thing more to tell you. The Wild Birds have been summoned home, but they won't ever make it. We've gathered them in Pavia, and Hofgaard, and Conradi. Ehrlich is dead.

John Buchan - Mr. Standfast

When I had done with them I got out Scudder's little black pocket-book and studied it. It was pretty well filled with jottings, chiefly figures, though now and then a name was printed in. For example, I found the words 'Hofgaard', 'Luneville', and 'Avocado' pretty often, and especially the word 'Pavia'.

John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps