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His hands groped along the side of the tunnel, the one Norden had used to enter the plant on his spying expeditions. Taylor crawled slowly, feeling his way. It seemed eternity until at last he reached the end of the passage and felt the trap door overhead. A minute later he rejoined the others, huddled in darkness outside the gate. "The searchlight went out," Masters explained.
Taylor wrenched the gun from Norden's hand, just as the spy landed a jarring blow to the body. Taylor staggered, lost his balance and dropped the gun. Norden leaped forward to retrieve the weapon, but Taylor blocked the move. He drove Norden back with a hard right. The two men closed in and stood toe to toe, trading blows. The screaming of the sphere grew louder.
A feeble ray of heat lashed out toward Taylor, but the bolt halted in mid-air. A plop cracked in Taylor's ear. The sphere disappeared like a bursting soap bubble. "Cap! Are you all right!" Masters appeared in the doorway behind Taylor. "Gosh!" His eyes settled on the pile of ashes, the remains of Norden. He turned to Taylor. "Are you all right, Cap?" Taylor nodded.
Norden tells us that Henry III. often "lay" at the palace, and on two occasions Bishop Bancroft received visits here from Queen Elizabeth. James I. also came here before his coronation. In 1627 Charles I. dined with Bishop Montaigne. In 1642 the Parliamentary army encamped at Fulham, 24,000 strong, under Essex.
She expects never to see us again. Now, he comes to-morrow by the morning boat, she said. What did that mean? Boat from where? 'I know. From Norddeich on the mainland opposite. There's a railway there from Norden, and a steam ferry crosses to the island. 'At what time? 'Your Bradshaw will tell us here it is: "Winter Service, 8.30 a.m., due at 9.5." 'Let's get away at once.
Emden, which I had inclined to on the spur of the moment, was out of court in comparison, for many reasons; not the least being that it was served by three trains between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m., so that the phrase 'night train' would be ambiguous and not decisive as with Norden. So far good; but how was I to spend the intervening time? Should I act on Davies's 'querry' and go to Bremen after Böhme?
Taylor took Orkins' arm and forced him down on the running board of the car, where Norden already was coming out of his daze. "Keep quiet!" Taylor ordered. "They'll discover us." "They'll find us anyway!" Orkins said, frantic with fear. He groaned loudly. "Okay. He asked for it," Masters said. There was a splatting sound as Masters' fist landed.
He could hear the shrill whistle of spheres dinning through the bleak building. He peeped into the forge room. The first flush of dawn was streaming through the windows. Norden was there, creeping along the barrels of some naval guns toward the casting room. Norden halted at the door. He took a deep breath.
Moreover, such stylistic artifice as was practiced and taught by Gorgias, Isocrates, and other sophists crept into tragedy, says Norden, beginning with Agathon. The result was that with the poets style became as it had become with the sophists, an end in itself.
Masters, Pember and Norden watched the roaring flame. "We'll never escape them!" Orkins moaned. "They'll find us sooner or later. They can sense us." "They're not infallible," Taylor said. "Remember I got away from them in the tunnel." He turned knowingly toward the others. "Perhaps, if we dug a cave " "Sure!" said Masters. "It's a good idea." "Yes, sir!" Pember said with a nod.
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