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too easy. Still, s. remarked Tiny, "he
CHAPTER VIII “If your idea over the headquar- j must wire.’
ters being in Switzerland is right.’
If.*
“Sounds easy:
• worth chancing.” | off there.”
“The chief risk is if some sealousi “Possibly,”Hampstead policeman matches us in j yet j liave ’a
the act. If we are just seen by some gOal .g thg
of his staff, however good a descrip- giaj-6(>»
He gave Laval’s
i Taxi Driver.
“I may be wrong,
they would trust a
tant as that negative to the post
Moreover, a man of Blake’s type
trusts no one. He will want to see
i the colour of his money before he
agreed
sort of
same
Yard?’/ asked Tiny.
“Not a thing, I described Zavier
in detail, and clearly he is a new
one on them. Which proves just
nothing at all. Then I went along
and saw Gillson, and gave him a re
sume of our doings. In fact I whis
pered to him of our expedition to
night, At first he tried to dissuade
me; said the risk was too great. Biut
after awhile he agreed that it was
the only possible solution. Not that
he can do much if we’re caught,” he
added with a short laugh, “We’re
definitely putting ourselves outside
the pale of the law. And ’pon my
soul, Tiny, I don’t know if it is fair
to you. You are only a volunteer, so
to speak: it’s not your palaver.”
tn t'hla’zac: vnu ncc cried. Tiny
house here
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side, he came quite definitely to the
conclusion that it would bo better to
assume it was not a coincidence, and
make his plans accordingly, Standish
and his friend Carteret suspected
him: therefre, they must be dealt
with and at once.
The car pulled up at the door of
a luxurious flat and Zavier alighted
They were going by the ten o’clock
train: he would go by the one at
midday. And that would leave him
comfortable time to see if the wire
contained information of any impor
tance. It proved unexpectedly easy’
to decipher: the writer had evident
ly pressed hard with his pencil. Ana
when the complete message lay be
fore him on the desk for awhile he
stared thoughtfully out of the win
dow. Then a faint smil curled
his lips and he rubbed his
gently togetehr.
“Excellent,” he murmured:
cellent.’’
And with
face he went
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He sat down and pulled a tele
may have got'graph form towards him.
“How’s this?" he said a few mo
ments later. “We want F.B. out of
his house to-night from eleven till
one, Please arrange. Urgent and vi
tal. Tiny.”
“That ought to do it,” sad Tiny.
“And she’ll pull it *off of it
humanly possible.”
“My man can take it for you
once,” said Laval, “The bureau
just around the corner. And first
hot water for a shave
cried Standish. “And
catch the ten o’clock
Standish. “Ana
hunch that his*
as our-—Felton j
tion of us is circulated, I don’t think!
we shall be implicated. There are
times,” he added with a wink “when’
Scotland Yard can be very dense.”
“And when do you suggest we
should do it?” I
“On the first possible occasion |
said Standish. “Time is becoming
one ot the most vital factors in thiq
mat er. And I propose we should ■ thing tha,, we ®uow that Zav!el.
tij to-moilow night. Alwass piori^-lllag disappeared tor the time as tar
1
having Ills
address to thej
but I don’t think
thing so impor-;
Is
at
is
he
round
hands
“Ex-
matter. And I propose we should;
try to-morrow night. Always prov '
ed, that is, that we can get hold of Lady Mary.” I
“Shouldn't be much difficulty;about that. I know she will be In' breakfast and introduced themselves-
town and she’ll cancel any engage-1 “It was to me a. great pleasure,”
iment to help us. _______ ___ _
we do about young Joe?”
Standish shrugged his shoulders.
“There’s nothing much to be done
I’m damned sorry ___ _____ _ .
other people have been in love be- (
fore and got over it. We’ll go round, easy-
to Laval’s flat and when we ge, T1'”'
Paris, pick him up and take him
over to England. I can probably,
help to square matters over his pass
port.”
He lit a cigarette and leaned back’
in his seat.
“Gad! Tiny, it would be great if
we could pull it off. Just great -with
eyes
head.
the
into
smile still on his
his dressing-room
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Newspaper AssociationGo to ^blazes, you ass,”
“Unless you want a rough
and now.”
“Right ho!” grinned
“I’m not denying
damned useful, but it’s
warn you that there is
the devil of a .risk.”
“How are you going
safe if we do get in?”
“One of my little secrets that you
don’t know,” answered Standisn
“You shall after dinner.
“And since it will probably be our
last," laughed Tiny, “we’d better
make it a good one.”
It was nine o’clock when they left
the club, and there was still no sign
of Denver. During the meal they had
both been unusually silent: as the
the other
won’t .beyou
only fair to
going to be
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said Tiny.five Tiny rang the bell
shall get some
“Excellent,”
then we must
boat train.”
“Pour les pauvres, Messieurs.”
TWo nuns were standing in the
passage, and the speaker, as if tc
account for their unexpected ap
pearance, added almost apologetical-
Incidently what do he remarked when Standish began tc ly— Lo porte etait ouverte.’
........................ ... ’ * The three men each handed over
a note, while one of the nuns care
fully entered the amounts in a lit
tle book, Laval led the way to the
bathroom and for a moment the nuns
were alone,
to see the
with which
of the pad
folded and put away in a bag. And
when Laval returned
standing meekly waiting
signature in their book
ing as silently as they
Nor was there anyone
instead of continuing to
to house visitation the two nuns
walked swiftly away to where a
large car was waiting, and paused
by it just long enough to say “Dix
heures”—and to place the piece ot
paper in a hand extended througn
the window—the hand of a man on
whose shoulders sat a small monkey
The car rolled off, and Boris
Zavier studied the telegraph form
He sawr at once the imprint of the
pencil, which had been made when
the wire had been written, but re
alising the impossibility of deciph
ering it in a moving car he re-folded
it and placed it in his pocket book j but I've got an engagement I simply
to hear al!
and see me
as we are concerned.”
They found Laval
j thank him for what he had done.;
“When the se charming Madame
g much to-be none J Mackintosh tell me her scheme and
y" for the boy, but 1 realize zat the honour of a lady is
at stake—que voulez vous, It was so
1 e‘n‘5V- 1 arrange the affair oi
et* tc Irlie passport here. I say my mechan
ic he is ill and zat this gentleman—
a qualified pilot—he take his place
, his place at ze last moment so as
not to disappoint the passengers.’
“Splendid, Monsieur Laval, crieu
Standish. “A thousand thanks. And
where is he now?”
“He sleep late, I thiqk in zat room
He crossed the/ passage, ano
knocked on the door of a room op
posite. And then receiving no answer
he flung it open.
“He is not here. Probablement he
is gone out. Ah! but here is a note.
Let us see what he say. .
“Dear Monsieur Laval,—
“My warmest thanks for all
that you have done. I looked intc
your room but you were sleeping sc
f did not awaken you. Tell Standish
when you -see him that I have gone
to London. I’ll square the passport
business somehow. And tell hijn I'll
get what
thanks.”
He laid
table and
ing thoughtfully.
“A nuisance—that,” he said. ‘You
don’t know liis address in London
Tiny, I suppose? Or his club?”
“Not a notion. Why,”
“My dear old lad, Joe
an excellent youngster,
last thing I want is to
blundering round Felton Blake. And
that’s what he evidently means tc
! do. It’s going to completely queer
‘our pitch. He’ll do no good: and he’ll
put Blake on his guard.”
“I should think it is more than
likely he will go and see Mary/
said Tiny, “What about getting her
on the ’phone?”
“That’s a god idea. May we put
through a London call, Monsieur
Laval?”
j “But assuredly. It is in the hall.’
} “Tell her, Tiny, that if ever she
“But it alters things a little at the sees Denver she must tell him from
same time for to-night. We mustn’t us to do absolutely nothing until he
both sleep at the same time: that’s sees us. Tell him to come to the club
obvious. We’ll shut the door intc * at six to-night.”
the corridor, and we’ll open the' -
window. But for the love of Pete it
it’s your watch don’t forget to shut
it whenever we stop at a station.
But nothing happened throughout
the night. Once, when they had stop
ped at some comparatively small and ' and in less than three minutes Tiny
ill-lit place it had seemed to Tiny heard Simmonds’
that something had hit ths window j other end.
but the blow was so soft that he
couldn’t have sworn to it. And peer-. Mr. Carteret. I want Lady Mary ur-
ing out he could1 see nothing, so he ' gently.”
dismissed it as imagination. Once al-'
so during another period when .he ' sir. Not returning until lunch-time.’
was on duty a peculiar-shaped sha- “
dow showed for a moment in the cor- I ver,
He paused suddenly, his
narrowed, staring over Tiny’s
Then he went on—
“All the odds against us.”
“What’s stung you, Ronald?” I
“One of the biggest of those odds
who for the moment had slipped my
mind. Our friend Zavier is on the I
train, though I certainly never no-'
tieed him get on at Dalzburg. And
he’s watching us, Tiny!” i“How do you know?” I
“He was standing in the corridor
of the next coach, and for a moment
our eyes met.” !
He called for the bill and a few
minutes later they returned to their
carriage. Sleeping berths had been
impossible, and they had a first- class compartment to themselves. |
“Be careful, old man,” he said
abruptly as Tiny .prepared to throw
his coat -which he had left to mark
his place into the racki “Don’t touch
anything. Apparently nothing has
been moved, but. . .” (
eyes were searching every
of the carriage and
His
corner
awhile he drew on a pair of gloves. I
“We ho cavpral Irinris nf a cfs !
after
may be several kinds of ass
Tiny, but I don’t trust railway trains
when members of this fraternity are
about. We’ve been in the. restauranr
car for a good two hours' and this
carriage has been empty.
He ran his fingers gently over the
upholstery while the train rockea
and swayed through the darkness
And not until he had explored every
corner did he at length sit down.
“False alarm this time,’’ he said j
»)
we want. Again many
the letter down on the
Standish, re-read, frown-
Denver is
But the
have him
“And what about Felton Blake
to-night?” said Tiny, hanging up
the receiver.
“Tell her what we want to do
But be
The
guarded.”
call went through quickly.
voice from the
“Speaking from Paris, Simmonas
“Her ladyshij) is out of London
him the message about Den-
said Standish, as Tiny repeated
Blake.”
went on Tiny, “you
Denver. Tall, fair
'Give
ridor—a shadow so indefinite that it (it- “Not Felton
might have been thrown by a sackBut it disappeared as abruptly as it} remember Mr. --------- -----
had come and when he glanced out! gentleman with curly hair. You do,
If he comes to call on Lady Mary
to-day fell hi,m that he is to do noth
ing until he sees Mr. Standish. Got
that? And tell him to
club at six.”
He listened while
peated the message, and
But when Tiny joined him there' of.
he shook his head a little ruefully. | “So far, so good,”
“I didn’t,” he said “And I saw “We couldn’t have passed a message
every soul who came off that train.” through him about Feton Blake. We
was empty. And sc
they arrived in Parts
with the kit, Tiny,”
as the train ran intc
the corridor
without event
“You deal
said Standish,
the Gave de Lyon. “I’m sprinting
like a hare to the barrier to see 1*
I can spot Our friend.”
’ <<•
i
“Simmonds,”
call on Lady Mary
be at my
the rebutler
then rang
said Standish,
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she get my wire?” asked
got a wire, sir. when she re-
at lunch-time.”
So that there was no one
sudden quick movement
the top telegraph form
was detached, 'carefully
they were
for his
before leav-
had arrived
to see thai
their house
if they were caught, it would with-
i
At half past
of Lady Mary’s house, and the door
was opened by Simmonds,
“Her ladyship is not at home, sir’
he said. “She left a note for you.”
“Did
Tiny.
“She
turned
“Has Mr. Denver been here?” I
“No sir, no sign of him. Will you
come in, sir, and read the note, you time drew nearer the bald fact that
might like to write an answer.”
Tiny went into the boudoir and as out a shadow of doubt .mean a term
he glanced round the familiar room'of imprisonment, began to obtrude
he gave a short laugh. Only four days
since he felt her lips on his for the
first time—but what a lot of water
had flowed under the bridge since
then.
“A whiskey and soda, sir?” sug
gested the butler.
“Thank you Simmonds,” he said
sitting down and opening the note.
My Dear,—(it ran).
“I have done what you asked in
your wire. But what on the earth is
the idea? I gather from your tele
phone message to Simmonds that Joe
Denver must be safely out of Dalz
burg. Nada Mazarin wrote me from
Paris to say he was there, and that
she had travelled with you. It’s dis
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dared start, but
preparations tc
itself with increasing clearness. But
neither of them had the slightest in
tention of drawing back.
They dro've to
There was at least
through-1 before they
there were several
be made. First he went to the safe
and in the corner of the room, and
from it he extracted a rolled-up
green wallet of the type used
motoring tools. Then he drew
blinds before opening it '0;ut on-
table.
“This room is overlooked,”
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Then he lay back and began to think' cannot break. I’m dying
For the events of the last few days'
had shaken his nerve badly.
The first had been the Demeroff
affair. That the Russian had been
coming to Lausanne with the express
purpose of meeting Standish he now
knew, and though he had acted in
time it had been a very close shave
the disquieting part of the thing
that it proved that what he haa
to Felton Blake was wrong. Ir
not only the Bessonian affair
had brought Standish to Swit-
! your news: come round
! first thing to-morrow.
he
said with a grin. “And I’d hate any
one to think that this represented
my normal method of livelihood.”
Inside was a complete parapherna
lia of the professional cracksman lay
gleaming in the electrict light.
“Good Lord! old man,” cried Tiny
“where did you get that lot?”
Mary. • “I got them in the States from a
no sign of professional user of them,” laughed
“as a small token of grat-
something I did .for him
to him they weren’t quite
form and he was getting
Moreover he showed
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But
was
said
was
that
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ger. That the existence of his organ
ization was known to the authorities
was obvious: activities on such a
scale as he had carried them out
could only be inspired with a sort ot
cynical humour that it would be
amusing if this—one of the- least ol
his schemes—.should prove
that revealed to whom the
longed.
It was the abduction of
Denver that worried him.
he really eared in the
to be one
brain be
te
nor
let
his
P.S.—There has been
Joe hes’e. I
He crossed to her desk as the but-! itude for
ler came in with the drink.
<<
the other,
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If I may say so, sir,’ he said with up to his
the familiarity of an old servant i some others,
“her ladyship seems to have been' me how to use ’em.”
very worried lately. Not at all her
usual self.”
“You are quite right, Simmonds
She has been. By the way, has a
gentleman called Blake been here at
all?”
“Once
“Might I
friend of
“A friend of mine!” cried
“Emphatically he is not.”
“I am not surprised, sir,”
Simpionds quietly, “Will you
if yo.u, require another drink, sir?”
So even the servants had noticed
it, reflected Tiny savagely as the
door closed. And any lingering
doubts he might have had about the
night’s work
negative had
He pulled
wards him.
Mary Dear,— (he wrote) ’ ]
Well done. I’ll come round and.
see you to-morrow and maybe—
though I don’t promise—it will see
the end of your troubles. I’ve got lots
to tell you. Tiny.
,He sealed the envelope and finish
ed his drink.* Then lie rang the bell
“Give this to Lady Mary, Sim
monds, will you? And if by ahy
chance Mr. Denver does arrive, my
telephone
Send him
fail.
Ronald
him in the smoking room.
“Fortunately it is the more
portant of the two things that
come off,” was his comment when he
heard Tiny’s news. “And we can
only hope that young Denver post
pones his visit till to-morrow. I put
Folkestone
arrived al]
boat. And
themselves
or twice, sir,” he said
ask, sir, if he is—er—a
yours?”
-two masks.” He rummaged
“Here are two that will
taking any weapons?’
not, old lad,. Certainly
Tiny
said
ring
ahead vanished. That
got to be obtained.
a sheet of paper to-.j
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He rolled up the wallet again and
put it in his pocket.
“Now-
In a drawer.
do.”
“Are we
asked Tiny.
“I think
not guns. Burglary is one thing:
shooting is another. No: we’ll stick
to the perfectly efficient fist, if we’
re caught in the act and then run
like stags. For the trouble is that
we daren’t go in my car. We’d have
to leave it some distance, from the
house, and a car untended for two
hours or so would have the police on
it at once. We’ll just take a taxi to
somewhere near the house and then
walk.”
It was half-past ten when they de
cided they could start and a quarter
of an hour later they dismissed their
machine at Swiss Cottage. If Blake
was meeting Lady Mary at eleven, he
would have left his house already
and the coast would be clear.
They walked along Eton Avenue
comparatively dimly lit after the
glare of Finchley Road behind them
And after about a quarter of a mile
Standish turned left-handed up an
even quieter road. Tney were in the
centre of one of the wealthy resi
dential quarters of Hampstead and
the houses on each side of them pro
claimed the fact. Solid, Comfortable
and above all eminently respectable
they seemed to personify their solid
comfortable and eminently respect
able owners.
“There id the spot we want," said
Standish. “Number 12."
They paused opposite
other side of the road,
darkness save for a light
of the top windows. To the right of
it as they looked lay the garage and
over the top of
some trees.
“Up and it it,
“Take
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this boy
Not that
slightest
whether Berendosi succeeded or fail
ed; save for the money involved‘ the
whole thing bored him. But what
did matter was the fast that Stand
ish must have seen him at Gregor-
off’s place.
He cursed himself now for ever
having attended such an absurd far
ce, but at the time he did not know
Standish was in Dalzburg. Had he
had an inkling of the fact nothing
would have induced him to go. For
he was under no delusions with
gard to the Englishman: he was
a man to be trifled with. Once
him suspect and he would pass
suspicions on. And it seemed to him
more than likely t|iat he suspected
already.
It had ••'been a pure accident that
momentary glimpse in the restaurant
wagon, but the result of that aocl-j
dent had alarmed him more than he.
cared to admit even to himself. Was
it merely coincidence that one or the
other of them had been awake all
through the night? Was it merely
coincidence that the door into the
corridor had been closed, and the
windows shut whenever he had
alighted from the train? And finally
was it merely coincidence that Stand-1
ish should have been standing by
the barrier watching the passengers}
intently as they left the station. That,
fact that he had passed within two,
feet of him in safety'was beside the
point: all that mattered was wheth-.
er these precautions had been due to-—strangely insistent was the phrase} Standish.
we oan only. London as a free man.
j what's that?”
(Continued next wceik.)
message to you still holds
round to my club without
Standish was waiting for
ini-
hafl
through a call to the
passport people, and he’d
right iby the one o’clock
after they had satisfied
he was British they let him ,go on
He was very insistent apparently on
getting to London as soon as possible
that accidental glimpse in the train | they used. However,
And being & man who never believedf hope for the best?’
In underrating the odds oh the other"Did you find out anything at the
lt on the
It was in
from one
it they could see
Tiny/' chu'cklod
your last look at
My God I
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