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I was with them all only an hour ago, Streuss, that blackguard Lassen, and Adolf Kahn, the police spy. They are beaten men and they know it. They had Laverick, had him by a trick, but I made a dramatic entrance and the game was up." "Telephone me directly you have taken it safely to Downing Street," she begged. "I will," he promised. Bellamy walked from Dover Street to the Strand.
Laverick looked around him a little defiantly, and shrugged his shoulders. "You know very well that I do not carry it about with me," he said. "The gentleman on my left," he added, pointing to Kahn, "can tell you where it is kept." "Quite so," Streuss admitted.
"My friend," she said, "with your two absurd companions shadowing you all the time and glowering at me, how could one possibly doubt it? The Baron Streuss is, I believe, the Chief of your Secret Service Department, is he not? To me he seems the most obvious policeman I ever saw dressed as a gentleman." "You don't mean it!" he muttered. "You can't mean what you said just now!"
"There is no means of convincing you of which I care to make use. You must be content with my word. I have the packet. I paid Von Behrling for it and he gave it to me with his own hands." "I must accept your word," Streuss declared. "I give you three days for reflection. Before I go, Mr. Bellamy, forgive me if I refer once more to this," touching the newspaper which still lay upon the table.
The kindness of the woman whom he adored was sufficient in itself to have transported him into a seventh heaven. On the other hand, he had trouble with his friends. Streuss drew him on one side at Ostend, and talked to him plainly. "Von Behrling," he said, "I speak to you on behalf of Kahn and myself. Wine and women and pleasure are good things.
The question for you to decide, and to decide immediately, is whether you are ready to end this, in some respects, constrained situation, and give your word to place that document in our hands." "You are ready to accept my word, then?" Laverick asked. "We have a certain hold upon you," Streuss continued slowly. "Your partner Mr.
They may even destroy it. If Streuss returns and you are forced to see him, be careful. Remember, we have the document we are hesitating. So long as he believes that it is in our possession, he will not look elsewhere." "I will be careful," Louise promised, with her arms around his neck. "And, dear, take care. When I think of poor Rudolph Von Behrling, I tremble, also, for you.
Only a few hours ago I learned that he is one of their most heavily paid spies. Streuss got hold of him. But there, I forgot you do not understand this. It is enough that he laid a plot to get that document from you. Where is it, Mr. Laverick? You have brought it now?" "Why, no," Laverick answered, "I have not." Her eyes were round with terror.
It was as great a surprise to me as to you." "It is incomprehensible," Streuss murmured. "One can only conclude," Bellamy remarked thoughtfully, "that someone must have seen him with those notes. There were people moving about in the little restaurant where we met. The rustle of bank-notes has cost more than one man his life. "For the present," Streuss said, "we must believe that it was so.
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