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Updated: June 2, 2025
Late that night we exchanged clothes with two poor, demented creatures who retained sufficient reason, however, to realise that our uniforms meant freedom.... They crept away into the forest. We remained.... And marched at dawn straight into the jaws of the Great Secret!" Recklow had remained at the telephone until dawn.
"Even here," Recklow was saying, in a voice made low and cautious from habit, "the dirty Boche prowl among us under protean aspects.
"McKay," said Recklow, "I don't know what the particular mission may be that brings you and Miss Erith to the Franco-Swiss frontier. I have been merely instructed to carry out your orders whenever you are in touch with me. And I am ready to do so."
Miss Erith said: "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Recklow got up, made them a bow, and reseated himself. He touched a handbell; the blond sous-officier entered. "Everything is in order; take care of the car; carry the luggage to the two rooms above," said Recklow. To McKay and Miss Erith he added: "My name is John Recklow.
The latter said in his ghost of a voice: "You are beginning to suspect my sanity." He turned with an effort and fixed his hollow eyes on Evelyn Erith. "We are sane," he said. "But I don't blame you, Recklow.
Suddenly, as he watched, the flowing wire stopped, swayed violently sideways, then was jerked out of the men's hands. "The Boche bites!" they shouted. Their officer, reading the measured wire, turned to Recklow and gave him the depth; the hose-pipe ran out sixty yards; then Recklow checked it and put on his gasmask as the whistle signal rang out along the mountain.
At the same time an unmasked figure on the cliff above began talking by American radiophone with three planes half a mile in the air above him. He spoke naturally, easily, into a transmitter to which no wires were attached. He was still talking when Recklow arrived at his side from the ravine below, tore off his gas-mask, and put on a peculiar helmet.
She sold ME! But she's German. And it's your business. But if you Germans will listen to me you'll shove her against that pile of rocks and shoot her." The girl had begun to cry now: "It's a lie! It's a lie!" she sobbed. "If it was Recklow who talked to me I didn't know it. I thought he was one of us, Harry! Don't go away! For God's sake, don't leave me with those men "
It is not cold under ground.... It was like a dark, thick dream. We tried to realise that war was going on, over our heads, up above us somewhere in daylight where there was sun and where stars were.... It was like a thick dream, Recklow. The stars seemed very far...." "You had passed as inmates of some German asylum?" "We had killed two landwehr on the Staubbach.
Now Recklow took from his pockets his spool of very fine wire, attached it low down to a slim young pine, carried it across to the edge of the cliff, and attached the other end to a sapling on the edge of the ledge. On this wire he hung his cowbell and hooked the little clapper inside.
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