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Their villa at Norderney, and their home life there, were unknown to him, though he had landed once at the harbour himself. Further, he had heard vaguely of a stepmother, absent at Hamburg. They were to have joined her on their arrival at that city, which, be it noted, stands a long way up the Elbe, forty miles and more above Cuxhaven, the town at the mouth.
I don't even know where he and his yacht are; but I'll be bound they're somewhere in those same waters, and probably back at Norderney. 'It's a delicate matter, I mused, dubiously, 'if your theory's correct. Spying on a spy 'It's not like that, said Davies, indignantly. 'Anyone who likes can sail about there and explore those waters. I say, you don't really think it's like that, do you?
Next point; it's absurd to hope that we need not revisit them it's ten to one that we must, if we're to succeed. His attempt on you is the whole foundation of our suspicions. And we don't even know for certain who he is yet. We're committed, I know, to going straight to Norderney now; but even if we weren't, should we do any good by exploring and prying? It's very doubtful.
I know we wanted a free hand, but we've got to go to Norderney some time, and if Dollmann's away 'Why did you harp on Miss Dollmann? said Davies. We had worked round, through idle recrimination, to the real point of departure. I knew Davies was not himself, and would not return to himself till the heart of the matter was reached. But directly you really want me you turn round and go for me.
Norderney, of course, was conspicuous in this respect; but even its town, which I know by repute as a gay and fashionable watering-place, would be dead and empty for some months in the year, and could have no commercial importance. No man could do anything on the mainland coast a monotonous line of dyke punctuated at intervals by an infinitesimal village.
It was quite thirty miles to Memmert, with three watersheds to pass; behind Baltrum, Norderney, and Juist. A skipper with nerve and perfect confidence might take us over one of these in the dark, but most of the run would infallibly have to be made outside. I now better understood the protests of Herr Schenkel to Grimm.
From that point our personal history is of no concern to the outside world, and here, therefore, I bring this narrative to an end. Epilogue AN interesting document, somewhat damaged by fire, lies on my study table. It is unsigned, but internal evidence, and the fact that it was taken by Mr 'Carruthers' from the stove of the villa at Norderney, leave no doubt as to its authorship.
Then there will be two objects: one, to work back to Norderney, where I left off before, exploring all those channels through the estuaries and islands; the other, to find Dollmann, discover what he's up to, and settle with him. The two things may overlap, we can't tell yet.
"You see, Eve, I thought counting it all up that if I came home it would cost less than going to Norderney and that all the expense of my going to Germany and coming back is less than what it would have cost to keep me at home for the five months I've been there I wish you'd tell everybody that." She turned about in bed; her head was growing fevered.
'Yes, said I, thinking ahead. That letter from my chief awaiting me at Norderney? My name was known, and we were watched. It might be opened. Lord, how casual we have been! 'May I ask what? 'The Foreign Office. It sounded suspicious, but there it was. 'Indeed in the Government service? When do you have to be back?
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