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Updated: June 29, 2025
The hour of Ivery's coming on the 19th had been fixed by him for noon, and that morning Mary would drive up the valley, while Wake and the Alpini went inconspicuously by other routes so as to be in station around the place before midday. But on the evening of the 18th at the Hotel of the Four Kings in Chiavagno Mary received another message.
Now we have a great body of knowledge, for Blenkiron has been brooding over Ivery like an old hen, and he knows his ways of working and his breed of confederate. You've got something to work on now. Do you mean to tell me that, when the stakes are so big, you're going to chuck in your hand? Macgillivray raised his head. 'We know a good deal about Ivery, but Ivery's dead.
Smooth as clockwork was the machine, till in the dawn of a spring morning I found myself dropping into a broad valley through little orchards just beginning to blossom, and I knew that I was in France. After that, Blenkiron's own arrangements began, and soon I was drinking coffee with a young lieutenant of Chasseurs, and had taken the gag from Ivery's mouth.
Looking back on my madcap journey, I seemed to have had an amazing run of luck and to be entitled to a little credit too. I told myself that persistence always pays and that nobody is beaten till he is dead. All Blenkiron's instructions had been faithfully carried out. I had found Ivery's post office.
They're the mightiest poison merchants the world ever saw, and they've the nerve of hell ... 'I don't know, I interrupted. 'Ivery's got his soft spot. I saw him in the Tube station. 'Maybe, but he's got the kind of nerve that's wanted. And now I rather fancy he's whistling in his flock. Blenkiron consulted a notebook. 'Pavia that's the Argentine man started last month for Europe.
Ivery's bound for Germany, but his route is by the Pink Chalet, for he hopes to pick me up there. He went down the valley; therefore he is going to Switzerland by the Marjolana. That is a long circuit and will take him most of the day. Why he chose that way I don't know, but there it is. We've got to get back by the Staub. 'How did you come? he asked. 'That's our damnable luck.
'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.
That was the one fixed point in the chaos of my mind. For the first time in my life I was resolute on killing one particular man, and the purpose gave me a horrid comfort. Suddenly Ivery's voice rang out sharp. 'Take your hand out of your pocket. You fool, you are covered from three points in the walls. A movement and my men will make a sieve of you.
That I'm keeping open, for soon there's going to be some traffic on it. At that I saw Ivery's eyelids quiver. For all his self-command he was breaking. 'I admit we cut it mighty fine, along of your fooling me about Clarence. But you struck a bad snag in General Hannay, Graf. Your heart-to-heart talk with him was poor business.
Ivery's eyes were on me now, fascinated and terrified like those of a bird before a rattlesnake. I saw again the shapeless features of the man in the Tube station, the residuum of shrinking mortality behind his disguises. He seemed to be slipping something from his pocket towards his mouth, but Geordie Hamilton caught his wrist. 'Wad ye offer? said the scandalized voice of my servant.
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