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It instantly became evident, however, that his remark was casual and not serious, for he gathered up his mail and departed. Her hand trembled a little as she opened the letter, and for a moment the large gold monogram of its sender danced before her eyes.
He had already surmised that Maryon Rooke was the sender of the telegram, and he could see how unmistakably his sudden reappearance had shaken her. He felt baffled. Did the man still hold her? Was all the striving of the last few months to prove useless?
"The first men ever to leave Earth I'm going to start the old sender and radio back home! Man look at that stretch of plain!" He jumped to his feet and started across the control room. "Lord I feel like of ton of lead now I sure am out of condition for walking after all that time just floating!" Arcot raised a restraining hand.
"But it brings us no nearer to the real problems; viz., first, the sender of the message; and, second, his purpose." There was a dull purring sound and the Assistant Commissioner raised the telephone. "Yes. Who is it that wishes to speak to him? Dr. Keppel Stuart? Connect with my office." He turned again to Dunbar. "Dr. Stuart has a matter of the utmost urgency to communicate, Inspector.
It bore my name, but the handwriting was unfamiliar. "One of Anjou's troopers!" I muttered. I walked slowly away, still accompanied by Felix and carrying the packet in my hand. I had no idea of the sender, nor of the contents, yet strangely enough, when we reached our room, my fingers trembled so much that I could hardly break the seal. "What is it?" asked Felix anxiously. "What do you fear?"
Trembling so that she was hardly able to tear the envelope, Jenny returned to the kitchen, again scanning the address, the writing, the blue seal with its Minerva head. Still, in her perplexity, it seemed as though her task was first to guess the identity of the sender. Who could have written to her?
There was no guarantee that a message paid for would even be sent by the telegraph-operators, or, if withheld, that the sender would be apprised of its suppression. The war arrangements were retained during the armistice. And they were superlatively bad.
It is needless to say that as far as the accusations were concerned he was able to meet them all adequately and, as for the innuendoes, they were pure baseless fabrications. The sender was urged on to do it by someone else who also had an interest of another kind in placing Mr. Warrington in a bad light with Miss Winslow. But the sender soon realised his mistake.
In this notion I was partly confirmed and partly shaken by the accompanying message; which Simon, from whom every scrap of information had to be dragged as blood from a stone, presently delivered. 'You are to meet the sender half an hour after sunset to-morrow evening, he said, 'on the Parvis at the north-east corner of the cathedral. 'To-morrow evening?
The thought that prompted the sender was friendly, but the momentary effect was to arouse wild longings for the sea, and to add one more count to the indictment of the Kaiser, who had sent us for the holidays into the country, where we could obey the duty to economise, rather than to the seaside, where the temptations to extravagance could not be dodged.
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