"The 29th," he said thoughtfully, "is less than a fortnight
ahead----"
For a moment the German hesitated. Then he made a sign to
Conrad.
"Take him into the other room."
For five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next
door. His heart was beating violently. He had risked all on this
throw. How would they decide? And all the while that this
agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to
Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of
homicidal mania.
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