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"Oh, nonsense!" And Shafto burst out laughing. "Why, man, you're mad!" "Mad not a bit of it! I happen to know where she gets the stuff and I've known for a good while, Krauss has no idea that his wife drugs; it's all so artfully managed. That Madras ayah is a rare treasure and as cunning as the devil; she ought to be in our Secret Service. I needn't tell you that she is extravagantly paid."
"When you've been to call at 'Heidelberg' I may tell you it's miles and miles away you'll see for yourself; it's my opinion that she has been decoyed out to this country under false pretences." "Oh, but surely Mrs. Krauss is her own aunt?" "She is, and more or less an invalid, utterly broken down by years of Burma. Mrs.
Krauss helped herself to cake, her sudden lapses into silence, her abrupt interruptions and cavernous yawns. For years Mrs. Krauss had been at home once a week to her German neighbours. They are a gregarious nation, and the "Kaffee-Gesellschaft" an afternoon affair, beginning at four o'clock is greatly beloved by German women.
Krauss, in a hired and luxurious motor, made a rapid round of calls among the principal mem-sahibs who, as predicted, were not at home and wrote her own and Sophy's name in Government House book. The last house they visited was "The Barn." Mrs. Gregory received them and gave Mrs. Krauss and her niece a genial welcome. She and Mrs.
The Queen's chamberlain, Monsieur Erick von Kampfen, after carefully examining Juve's credentials, led the detective into a drawing-room in which were already gathered a number of persons. An officer, in a wonderful uniform, came forward and introduced him to several of his companions. "Princesse de Krauss, duc de Rutisheimer, colonel ..." Juve was not surprised at this.
Krauss is apathetic, dull, and baneless, and looks as if you could fold her up and put her in a bag. Herr Krauss is a fat, loud-talking, trampling German not a gentleman, but a man with a keen eye to business.
"We must get a move on and try to corner Krauss; that rope was a preliminary experiment, and all but landed you in Kingdom Come!"
"Why, of course possibly in six months. I leave my house and belongings all standing. Business is but temporarily closed. Burma, as old Krauss used to say, is 'the land of opportunity. When next I see the Golden Pagoda, the whole of this rich and fertile country will belong to us." "You are sanguine!" "Sanguine! I am certain; and why not? Look at our wonderful trade!
Krauss, and leaning back in his chair he beckoned to a waiter and said: "Boy, champagne!" When the champagne was brought, he said: "Let us all drink the health of this noble loafer, who cannot help himself but helps others. Here's to the benevolent informer! Let us hope he will meet with his reward even in this life," and he raised a brimming glass.
FitzGerald," she continued, "said that if he could only get hold of one or two big men who are behind the cocaine and opium trade he'd be doing a service to the world; he is most frightfully keen on catching them." "Not easy to catch what doesn't exist," declared Herr Krauss in his guttural voice. "But smuggling does exist surely you know that, and smuggling on an enormous scale," pronounced Mrs.
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