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"If he goes to Mademoiselle Idiale's," Streuss repeated slowly, "there is still a chance for us!" Laverick, in presenting his card at the box office at Covent Garden that evening, did so without the slightest misconception of the reasons which had prompted Mademoiselle Idiale to beg him to become her guest. It was sheer curiosity which prompted him to pursue this adventure.
"Certainly," Laverick answered, "but then I never had any idea of keeping either the document or the money. That your claim is better than mine is no guarantee that there is not some one else whose title is better still." Streuss frowned. "Be reasonable, Mr. Laverick," he begged. "We are men of peace when peace is possible.
Your spies were shadowing him as they have done me. He knew that he was running terrible risks. He was not unprepared and he has paid. It is not for us " "Now, in God's name, tell me the truth!" Baron de Streuss interrupted once more. "What is it that you are saying about Von Behrling's death?" Bellamy drew a little breath between his teeth. He leaned forward with his hands resting upon the table.
The body has been removed to the nearest mortuary, and an inquest will shortly be held. Streuss looked up from the newspaper and the reality of his surprise was apparent. He had all the appearance of a man shaken with emotion. While he looked at his two companions wonderingly, strange thoughts were forming in his mind. "Von Behrling dead!" he muttered. "But who who could have done this?"
It is the only thing left to us a bold front. Without that packet we have no casus belli. With it, we can strike, and strike hard. I still believe that if we declare war within seven days, we shall save ourselves." Streuss and Kahn looked, too, across the panorama of London, across the dingy Adelphi Gardens, the turbid Thames, the smoke-hung world beyond.
There was the sound of a motor horn from the street below. Streuss, with an oath trembling upon his lips, lifted the blind. There were two motor-cars waiting there large cars with Limousine bodies, and apparently full of men. After all, it was to be expected. Bellamy was no fool! "Since we are to lose you, then Mr. Laverick," Streuss remarked with a gesture of farewell, "let us say good night.
"We shall remember all those things," Bellamy assured him. Streuss took up his hat and gloves. "With your permission, then, Mademoiselle," he concluded, turning to Louise, "I go. I must try and understand for myself the meaning of this thing which has happened to Von Behrling." "Do not forget," Bellamy said, "that if you discover anything, we are equally interested."... They heard him go out.
If Streuss tells the truth, and I believe he does, his people are in the same position. Who, then, in the name of all that is miraculous, can have murdered and robbed Von Behrling?" "In London, too," Louise murmured. "It is not Vienna, this, or Belgrade." "You are right," Bellamy agreed. "London is one of the most law-abiding cities in Europe.
Would you have us three you and Kahn and myself travel arm in arm and speak never a word to our fellow passengers? Would you have us proclaim to all the world that we are on a secret mission, carrying a secret document, to obtain which we have already committed a crime? These are old-fashioned methods, Streuss. It is better that we behave like ordinary mortals. You talk foolishly, Streuss!"
The men who are with him are not the sort to stop short at trifles. Besides Streuss and Kahn, they have a regular army of spies at their bidding here. If they find out that he has tricked them, they will hunt him down, and before long." Louise shivered. "Oh, I hope," she exclaimed, "that he gets away!
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