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"If you could advance me a box of cigarettes," I said, "it shall be the first charge on the new explosive." He nodded, smiling. "I will send Sonia up with it," he answered. Then, following Savaroff, he went out into the passage, carefully closing the door after him. Left alone, I lay back on the pillow in a frame of mind which I believe novelists describe as "chaotic."
"My dear Savaroff," interrupted McMurtrie, soothingly, "there is no need to threaten Mr. Lyndon. I am sure that he appreciates the situation." Then he turned to me. "I suppose you have some reason for making this condition?" Silently in my heart I invoked the shade of Ananias.
It was at this point that Savaroff, who had been regarding us with the half-stupid stare of a man who has newly recovered consciousness, staggered up unsteadily from his chair. His half-numbed brain seemed suddenly to have grasped what was happening. "Verfluchter Schweinhund!" he shouted, turning on me. "So it was you, then " He got no further.
Face downwards in a little pool of blood lay the motionless figure of McMurtrie. Savaroff also was still his huge bulk sprawled in fantastic helplessness across the floor. Only von Brünig had moved; he was sitting up on his hands, staring in a half-dazed fashion down the barrel of Latimer's Mauser. It was Latimer himself who renewed the conversation. "Come and fix up these two, Ellis," he said.
"And now," he said, pushing back his chair, "the sooner we are out of this the better." I felt that if I was going to interfere the right time had now arrived. Von Brünig's reply to Savaroff had given me just the opening I needed. "One moment, gentlemen!" I said, getting up from the couch. They all three turned in obvious surprise at the interruption. "Well?" rapped out von Brünig, "what is it?"
Lyndon," he said slowly, "but if you choose I believe you can do more for England than any man alive." There was a short pause. "It seems to me," interrupted Tommy, "that England is a little bit in Neil's debt already." "That doesn't matter," I observed generously. "Let's hear what Mr. Latimer has got to say." I turned to him. "Who are McMurtrie and Savaroff?"
The last time I had been in this station was on my way up to Princetown two and a half years before. At last Savaroff emerged from the throng with my ticket in his hand. "I have taken you a first-class," he said rather grudgingly. "You will probably have the carriage to yourself. It is better so." I nodded.
They must have made an enormous amount of money out of the Japs. In the end one of them rounded on the others at least that's what appears to have happened. Anyhow McMurtrie and Savaroff skipped, and skipped in such a hurry that they seem to have left most of their savings behind them. I suppose that's what made them start business again in England."
"Suppose we try and awake our sleeping friend," he added. "He looks rather a heavy weight for lifting about." Between us we managed to hoist Savaroff up into a chair, while Tommy stepped across the room and fetched a bottle of water which was standing on the sideboard.
"Except for this girl, Sonia Savaroff, the Germans would now be in possession of my invention. If the Government feel that they owe me anything, they can cancel the debt altogether by allowing her to go free." Sir George raised his eyeglass. "You ask this after she did her best to send you back to penal servitude?" I nodded. "I am not sure," I said, "that I didn't thoroughly deserve it."
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