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We are hoping to persuade you to return to the hotel with one of our friends here, and procure it." "As it happens," Laverick remarked, "that is impossible. The man who set the combination for that particular safe has gone off duty, and will not be back again at the hotel till to-morrow morning." "But he is to be found," Streuss answered easily.
No one else has a key to the treaty safe, and Von Behrling declined to give up the document to any one save the Ambassador himself." Bellamy nodded. "What about Streuss?" "Streuss and the others are all furious," Louise said. "Yet, after all, Behrling has a certain measure of right on his side. His orders were to see with his own eyes this envelope deposited in the safe by the Ambassador himself."
"Supposing you decide to accept my offer, how long will it be before the packet can be placed in my hands?" "If we decide to accept," Bellamy answered, "there is no reason why there should be any delay at all." Streuss was silent for several moments. His hands were thrust deep down into the pockets of his overcoat.
But just as the train was starting, she heard the sound of angry voices, and a moment later his white face was pressed through the open window of the carriage. "Louise," he muttered, "I am on fire! I cannot talk to you! I fear that they suspect something. They have told me that if I travel with you they will force their way in. Even now, Streuss comes.
DAVID DEAR, I have just arrived and I am sending you these few lines at once. As to what progress I have made, I cannot say for certain, but there is a chance. You had better get the money ready and come to me here. If R. could only escape from Streuss and those who watch him all the time, I should be quite sure, but they are suspicious. What may happen I cannot tell.
The notes at this minute are in a safe deposit vault and will be returned intact to the fund from which they came. I want, also, to impress upon you, Sir James, the fact that Baron de Streuss offered one hundred thousand pounds for that letter." Sir James nodded thoughtfully. He stooped down and scrawled a few lines on half a sheet of note-paper.
Petersburg had presented themselves. The one thing which they did know, and that alone was significant enough, was that the Czar's Foreign Minister was cabled for that night to come to his master by special train from St. Petersburg. At the Austrian and German Embassies, forewarned by a report from Baron de Streuss, something like consternation reigned.
"As to who we are," Streuss answered, "does that really matter? I repeat that we are men who are in earnest let that be enough. As to what we want, it is a certain document to which we have every claim, and which has come into your possession I flatter you somewhat, Mr. Laverick, if I say by chance." Laverick shrugged his shoulders. "Let that go," he said.
Instantly the pacific atmosphere of the room was changed. Lassen and Morrison closed swiftly upon Laverick from different sides. Streuss covered him with the shining barrel of a revolver. "Mr. Laverick," he said, "we are not here to be trifled with. Keep your sister quiet, Morrison, or, by God, you'll swing!"
Not a dozen yards away, two cigar ends burned red through the gloom. She knew very well that those cigar ends belonged to Streuss and his friend. She laughed softly and once more she bent her head. "How they watch you, those men!" she said. "Listen, my friend Rudolph.
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