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Updated: June 23, 2025
An ugly light shone in his deep-set, narrow eyes as they fell on the two prisoners. 'Soh! he said, with a evil smile, 'my young friends, the spies! Achmet' this to the corporal 'you have done well. I will see that your conduct and that of your sergeant is recommended in the proper quarter. He turned to his companion. 'Ober-lieutenant von Steegman, he said formally.
Von Steegman, who seemed to be the only man among them to remain quite unmoved, raised his hand. 'All this is highly irregular, he said harshly. 'Captain Hartmann, it is our duty to interrogate these prisoners. 'What's the use of interrogating us if you have already made up your mind to shoot us? retorted Ken. Von Steegman glared at him.
Another drew his bayonet, and Ken saw it flash in the evening sunlight before his very eyes. It was Von Steegman who sprang forward and seized the man's arm just in time. 'No. Leave him alone, he cried harshly. 'The colonel has left express orders that he wishes to see these men before they are executed. Stand aside! It is only a short delay. They will both be shot at sundown.
Von Steegman, if a brute, had ten times the physical power and moral force of Hartmann. The man obeyed at once, and in a few moments order was restored. Two men carried away the insensible form of Achmet, Roy watching with a grim smile. Ken had hardly thought of his own danger. His lips were bleeding, and the foul blow had for the moment rendered him perfectly reckless.
Before he could speak there came a stir behind, the door leading from the house to the yard opened sharply, and a stout, coarse-looking man in the uniform of a colonel in the Prussian Army, strode heavily in. Hartmann and Von Steegman rose like two ramrods, and saluted him. They stood at the salute while he came across to the table.
Henkel, however, did not lose his temper as Von Steegman had done. He turned to Hartmann and Von Steegman and spoke to them both in a low voice. 'As you wish, Herr Colonel, said Hartmann presently, but there was an air of distinct disappointment about him.
Even Henkel, Hartmann, and Von Steegman hauled out their pistols from their belt holsters and fired for all they were worth. But a plane travelling at a mile a minute is not the easiest thing in the world to hit, especially when it seems to be coming right at you. Possibly some of the bullets pierced the widespread wings, but no harm was done to the observer or his pilot.
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