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They were together in Streuss's sitting-room on the seventh floor of one of the great Strand hotels. "Our enterprise is a failure!" Kahn exclaimed gloomily. "We cannot doubt it any longer. I think, Streuss, that the best course you and I could adopt would be to realize it and to get back. We do no good here. We only run needless risks." The face of the other man was dark with anger.
"I hope I am not disturbing you at all?" he murmured softly. For a moment the development of the situation remained uncertain. The gleaming barrel of Streuss's revolver changed its destination. Bellamy glanced at it with the pleased curiosity of a child. "I really ought not to have intruded," he continued amiably.
"It is so difficult," she murmured, in a perplexed tone. "The man has all my affairs in his hands. Up till now, although he is uncomely, and a brute in many ways, he has served me well." "If he is Streuss's creature he must go," Bellamy insisted. She nodded. "Let us sit down for a few minutes," she said. "I am tired." She sank on to a seat and Bellamy sat by her side.
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