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The Embassy servant came briskly to him, rubbing his hands after having put a moderately heavy case of documents on top of the waiting pile. "That Hoddan," said the plainclothesman, attempting hearty ruefulness, "he certainly put it over on us last night!" The servant nodded.
If he left the Embassy.... The plainclothesman bolted. He made a breathless report by the portable communicator set up for just such use. He told what the Embassy servant had said, and the inference to be drawn from it, the suspicions to be entertained and there he stopped short. Orders came back to him. Orders were given in all directions.
"Would there be any objection," asked Kennedy, "if I should ask my old friend, or any of you may do it, Deputy Commissioner O'Connor to detail a plainclothesman to watch this house and neighbourhood, especially at night?" We watched the faces of the others. But it was really of no use. "I think that is an excellent plan," decided Inez herself.
Followed by a plainclothesman, a middle-aged man entered the living room. Tall, broad-shouldered, determined, he strode to the bridge table, his handsome head upflung, his brown eyes fixed upon the widened brown eyes of Penny Crain. "Dad!" the girl breathed; then, joyously: "Oh, Dad! You've come home!" But Dundee halted the reconciliation with a stern word of command.
The sergeant detailed several roundsmen, and a man in plainclothes, and together we returned to the house, laying a careful plan to surround it secretly, while the plainclothesman and I obtained admittance. Meanwhile, the Chinese devil worshippers had again gathered in their cursed temple and Long Sin, in his priestly robe, appeared on the dais.
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