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"Just tell them everything I tell you when they question you tonight." "They will kill you," Swen said in a low voice. "Herr Domber poisoned the other one. He will do the same to you." "Tell me about it quickly. They won't be leaving us alone without a spotter very long," Stan said. "I do not know how it was done. I heard the Gestapo men laughing about it.
His thoughts all of a sudden were restive, flying off to Swen Brodie, to Loony Honeycutt, to what he must get done without too much delay. Gratton startled him by speaking, bringing his thoughts back from across the ridges to the sunny verandah overlooking Lake Gloria. Gratton was nobody's fool, save his own, and both marked and resented King's attitude.
"Which means as plain as print," he said thoughtfully, "that you would go to any man to be rid of me." He laughed unpleasantly and Gloria's anger flared the higher. "Do you know," he said presently, "that they are probably Gratton and Swen Brodie and their outfit?" "What of it?" asked Gloria, erect and defiant. "You know that Gratton has set out to ruin your father?
"There's to be no business between you and me," King told him promptly. "But there is. If you've got two grains of common sense. Look you, Loony Honeycutt is dead at last. His secret is no longer his secret. Swen Brodie knows something a whole lot " "It strikes me," frowned King, "that you know more of this than I gave you credit for. Where do you come in?"
Domber's face was red and his mouth was screwed into a snarl. Suddenly Stan felt sorry for Swen. He nodded to Hans as he climbed up. Looking down he saw the mechanics with their bulging coveralls crowding in close. Several of them had ripped their suits open and had their hands inside. Stan eased back against the shock pad. The left brake was the one to kick down hard.
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