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"The fact is, Miss Van Teyl," he confided, "I don't want it talked about, you know, but I had a joy ride over." "A what?" "A joy ride," he repeated. "A cousin of mine is in command of a destroyer, and she was under orders to sail for New York.

"I do not know what report you will see," he said, "but from whatever source it comes it will confirm my story. The news is too great and sweeping to be contradicted or ignored." "If it's true," Van Teyl muttered, "you've made a fortune in my office to-day. It looks like it, too. There was something wrong with Anglo-French beside your selling for the last hour this afternoon.

"Did they suspect Miss Van Teyl, then, of having taken your pocketbook?" Graham shook his head. "I lost the drift of things just then," he admitted. "She couldn't have done, in any case. Forgive me, but aren't we wasting time, Mr. Lutchester? We must do something. Couldn't you ring up Scotland Yard now?"

Once, when Van Teyl had left the box, however, to speak to some friends, he turned earnestly to Pamela. "Will it please you soon," he begged, "to resume our conversation of the other day? However you may look at it, things have changed, have they not? An invincible British Navy has been one of the fundamental principles of beliefs in American politics.

"A rich brother-in-law coming along, eh? ... No, don't do that," stepping quickly backwards as Van Teyl's fist shot out. "Then keep my sister's name out of this conversation," Van Teyl insisted. "If you are wise, you'll clear out altogether. They're at it again." Fischer, however, glanced at the clock and remained. At the next lull, he hung down the tape and turned to his companion.

Fischer walked by her side a powerful, determined figure in a carefully-pressed blue serge suit and a brown Homburg hat. He wore a rose in his buttonhole, and he carried a cane both unusual circumstances. After fifty years of strenuous living, Mr. Fischer seemed suddenly to have found a new thing in the world. "This is a pleasant idea of yours, Miss Van Teyl," he said.

"I have been ringing up for the last ten minutes and couldn't get any answer. I did not realise that it was the next suite." "Mr. Van Teyl is close at hand, madam," Nikasti replied. "If you will kindly be seated, I will fetch him." "How long have you been valet here?" Pamela asked curiously. "For a few hours only, madam," was the grave reply. "If you will be so good as to wait."

Pamela nodded. "Even he won't get it without Government authority." "Now, tell me, Pamela," Van Teyl went on "you're a far-seeing girl I suppose we should get it in the neck from Germany some day or other, if the Germans won? Why don't you hand the formula over to the British, and give them a chance to get ahead?" "That's a sensible question, Jimmy, and I'll try to answer it," Pamela promised.

"Your sister, however," Fischer continued, "was wise enough to have it locked up in the purser's safe the moment she set foot upon the steamer. She gave me the slip when she got it back, and eluded me, somehow, on the quay. She will scarcely have had time to part with it yet, though. When she arrives here to-night, it will in all probability be in her possession." "Well?" Van Teyl demanded.

"So far as my presence here is concerned, I knew quite well that I was coming some time ago, but it was one of those matters, you understand, Miss Van Teyl, that one is scarcely at liberty to talk about. I am here in connection with my work." "Your work," she repeated weakly. "I thought that you were in the Ministry of Munitions?" "Precisely," he admitted. "I have a travelling inspectorship.