Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
Still the man and the girl stood by the swaying lifeboat and talked the things that lovers say. Step by step they went over their thoughts for one another in each successive phase of the dark tragedy through which they had passed. "And that van der Spyck letter," asked Robin; "how did you get hold of it? I've been wanting to ask you that ever since this afternoon ..."
"What letter?" said the girl. "The letter from Elias van der Spyck and Company, to be sure," retorted the other quickly. Mary dipped her hand into her black fox muff. Then she hesitated. She could not rid herself of the suspicion that this man with the sallow face and the yellow fangs was not to be trusted. She withdrew her hand. "This is a very delicate matter, Mr. Schulz," she said.
All unconsciously he paid the tribute of 'sir' to Herr Schulz's undoubted habit of command. "Victor Marbran," replied the big man, "is Elias van der Spyck & Co., a firm which made millions in the war by trading with the enemy.
To the offices of Elias van der Spyck & Co., to be sure! Robin threw his napkin down on the table, thrust back his chair, and went off to the hotel porter to locate the address of the firm. The telephone directory showed that the offices were situated in the Oranien-Straat, about ten minutes' walk from the hotel, in the business quarter of the city round the Bourse. Robin glanced at the clock.
While we fully appreciate your own difficulties with labour at home, you will understand that this is a question which we cannot afford to adjourn sine die. Yours faithfully, pro ELIAS VAN DER SPYCK & CO. "'The last ... warning," Robin read out, "'if you don't ... settle ... by Nov. 27 ... you ... die ...!" He looked up. "Last Saturday," he said, "was the 27th, the day that Parrish died ..."
But while, after giving vent to her feelings, she stood there with a smile on her face, thinking that she knew one who would have been quite as capable as Van Spyck of such an exploit the man, namely, who was then standing behind her to him the picture had become a hateful thing; and he could have shot Van Spyck through the heart for his uniform's sake.
"The chain is not yet complete. I wonder what this van der Spyck letter of Miss Trevert's contained that made Victor Marbran and the secretary chap so desperately anxious to get hold of it. For you understand, don't you?" he said briskly, turning to Robin, "that they were after that and that alone. And they risked penal servitude in this country to get it ..." Robin nodded.
And pray, whom was I thinking of when I was looking at Van Spyck? why, of whom but of you? thinking that the man called Salvé Kristiansen, who stood behind me, was just the one to have done what Van Spyck did. Or when I was admiring the North Star was I not thinking then too: If you, Salvé, were in command of her, they would see what she could really do with a proper man on board?
"You promise to say nothing about it to any one?" He nodded. "Of course." Without a word the girl gave him the letter. With slow deliberation he unfolded it. The letter was typewritten and headed: "Elias van der Spyck & Co. General Importers, Rotterdam." This was the letter: ELIAS VAN DER SPYCK & CO. GENERAL IMPORTERS ROTTERDAM Rotterdam 25th Nov. Codes A.B.C. Liebler's Personal Dear Mr. Parrish,
He told himself that he had no indication as to Mary Trevert's business in Rotterdam save the supposition that she had found the van der Spyck letter and had come to Rotterdam to investigate the matter for herself.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking