And, when the pressure comes, he will have an excellent
helper in that girl. She, too, should have been left at home. Oh,
nonsense! Had you given me the ordering of affairs neither she nor this
young down-at-heels aristocrat would be here today. I am not saying
this merely to annoy you, as you seem to believe, but to warn you. Be
on your guard, Franz. Things are going too smoothly. No great fortune
was ever yet won without a hitch or two on the road, and we are not far
from the Five Hills now."
They moved away. Dick went back to his pulley, surveyed the deck over
the fore yard, and deferred his descent until "Franz" and "Maud" were
at the other end of the vessel. Since they came on board they had been
"Baron von Kerber" and "Mrs. Haxton" in the presence of others. What
desperate game were they playing that demanded these small deceits--
what hazard of fortune was it that gave rise to the woman's Cassandra-
like forebodings? Von Kerber had been candid enough in the statement he
put forward voluntarily at Marseilles.
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