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So you do know what's up, then? Spantz, eh? Well, what you've guessed at or found out won't make much difference, my fine young fellow. They've got you, and you'll be worse off than Danny Deever in the mornin'! Hello! Here they come. Now we'll get out of this infernal bake-oven. Say, do you know, you've been cuddlin' up against a j'int of warm stove pipe for nearly an hour? Sh!"
The keys to these two doors were never out of the possession of William Spantz; one of his guards held the key to the stairway door. His only chance lay in his ability to suddenly overpower two men and make off by way of the armourer's shop. When his little door was opened on the morning of the 23d, Truxton King's long, powerful figure shot through as if sped by a catapult.
If one had the secret in his possession, he could go down through the mysterious trap door in the workshop of William Spantz, armourer to the Crown; or he might come up through a hidden aperture in the walls of the great government sewer, which ran directly parallel with and far below the walls of the quaint old building.
When Spantz entered the door, a moment later, the girl was gazing listlessly from the window and Truxton King was leaning against the counter with his back toward her, his arms folded and a most impatient frown on his face. "Hello!" he said gruffly. "I've been waiting ten minutes for you." Spantz's black eyes shot from one to the other. "What do you want?" he demanded sharply.
"We know that he is in communication with the police and we know that he visits the Castle, despite his declaration that he knows no one there. To-day's experience proves that. I submit that the strictest caution be observed where he is concerned." "We shall continue to watch his every movement," said William Spantz. "Time will tell.
By noon of that day, the 26th of July, the Committee of Ten will be in control of the State; the new regime will be at hand. A new world will be begun, with Edelweiss as the centre, about which all the rest shall revolve. We the Committee of Ten will be its true founders. We shall be glorified forever " "We've heard all this before, Brutus," said Julius Spantz unfeelingly, "a hundred times.
Julius Spantz, the armourer's son, a placid young man of goodly physical proportions, sat next to Brutus, while down the table ranged others deep in the consideration of the world's gravest problems.
Olga Platanova cried out and covered her eyes with her hands, murmuring the words "dear little boy" over and over again. She was led from the room by William Spantz. Peter Brutus stood over King, whose arms were held by two stalwart men. "Enough!" he commanded. "We spare you, not for her sake, but for the sake of the cause we serve.
A key turned in the padlock and the bolt was raised. Old man Spantz stood in the doorway, peering in at them. In surly tones Truxton replied to his sharp query, saying that the candle had gone out while he slept. "It is noon," said the old man irascibly. Then he came in and lighted a candle. "Noon of the 25th," said Truxton bitterly. "In twenty-four hours it will be all over, eh, Spantz?"
Spantz, I don't believe I've told you that your niece is a most remarkably beau " "As I was saying, sir," interrupted Spantz, so pointedly that Truxton flushed, "the little Prince is the idol of all the people. Under the present regency he is obliged to reside in the principality until his fifteenth year, after which he may be permitted to travel abroad.
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