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He made for the door, and with his hand on it, turned. "What do you expect from from what we've just heard?" he asked. Spargo shrugged his shoulders. "Wait until we hear what Mr. Aylmore has to say," he answered. "I suppose this man Marbury was some old acquaintance." Breton closed the door and went away: left alone, Spargo began to mutter to himself. "Good God!" he says.
"And what did you say to that?" he asked quietly. Myerst looked from his questioner to Rathbury. And Rathbury thought it time to enlighten the caller. "I may as well tell you, Mr. Myerst," he said smilingly, "that this is Mr. Spargo, of the Watchman. Mr. Spargo wrote the article about the Marbury case of which you spoke when you came in. Mr.
Robertson bought it from him for three thousand pounds, and Marbury shortly afterwards left for Melbourne. From what we could gather, Robertson thinks Marbury was probably in command of five or six thousand when he left Coolumbidgee. He told Robertson that he had met a man in Melbourne who had given him news that surprised him, but did not say what news.
He showed no more than the merest of languid interests in Spargo when Breton introduced him, and his face was quite expressionless when Spargo brought to an end his brief explanation purposely shortened of his object in calling upon him. "Yes," he said indifferently. "Yes, it is quite true that I met Marbury and spent a little time with him on the evening your informant spoke of.
"Wouldn't it be better to turn about, and run before the wind, so as not to put too great a strain on the machinery?" asked Lieutenant Marbury. "Perhaps," agreed Tom. "Hold her this way, though, until I see what's wrong!" Ned and the government man took the wheel, while Tom hurried along the runway leading from the pilot-house to the machinery cabin. The gale was still blowing fiercely.
It was a smooth bit of sand, under the shadow of a pine, and well sheltered by rugged overhanging rocks. They had an uninterrupted view of the bay outward, with the long tongue of land that partly enclosed it, and the lighthouse standing on the rocky point. Marbury lay behind them, out of sight. They settled themselves comfortably, in the cushions, with the rocks at their backs.
Aylmore, when you met him, was accompanied by the man who, according to the photographs, was John Marbury?" "It is, sir!" "Very well. Now, having seen Mr. Aylmore and his companion, what did you do?" "Oh, I just turned and walked after them." "You walked after them? They were going eastward, then?" "They were walking by the way I'd come." "You followed them eastward?"
Marbury rang for some whiskey and soda," continued Mrs. Walters. "He was particular to have a decanter of whiskey: that, and a syphon of soda were taken up there. I heard nothing more until nearly midnight; then the hall-porter told me that the gentleman in 20 had gone out, and had asked him if there was a night-porter as, of course, there is. He went out at half-past eleven."
"Perfectly sure," was the answer. "We don't know all the details yet, nor who are concerned in it, but we are working on the case. The Secret Service has several agents in the field. "We are convinced in Washington," went on Lieutenant Marbury, when he, Tom and Ned were seated in the private office, "that foreign spies are at work against you and against our government."
"What? by going up to every man who answers the description, and saying 'Sir, are you the man who accompanied John Marbury to the Aglo " Spargo suddenly interrupted him. "Look here!" he said. "Didn't you say that you knew a man who lives in that block in the entry of which Marbury was found?" "No, I didn't," answered Breton. "It was Mr. Elphick who said that.
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