Flynn, Michael - Forest of Time by Flynn Michael

Flynn, Michael - Forest of Time by Flynn Michael

Author:Flynn, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub


Knecht's work absorbed him for several days. Scraps of information filtered in from several quarters. He spent long hours in his office going over them, separating rumor from fact from possible fact. Sometimes, he sent a man out to see for himself and waited in nervous uncertainty until the pigeons flew back. Each night, he threw himself into his rack exhausted.

Each morning, there was a new stack of messages.

He moved pins about in his wall map. Formations whose bivouac had been verified.

Twice he telegraphed the Southern Command using his per-sonal code to discover what the scouts down along the Monongahela had learned. Slowly, the spaces filled in. The pins told a story. Encirclement.

Schneider came in late one evening. He stood before the map and stud-ied it for long minutes in silence. Knecht sipped his coffee, watching. The general drew his forefinger along the northwestern frontier. There were no pins located in Long House territory.

"Curious," he said aloud, as if to himself. Knecht smiled. Five rangers were already out trying to fill in that gap. Schneider would have his answer soon enough.

Knecht had almost forgotten Kelly. There had been no more time for his noontime visits.

Then, one morning he heard that Vonderberge and Ochsenfuss had fought in the officers'

club. Words had been exchanged, then blows. Not many, because the chief engineer had stopped them. It wasn't clear who had started it, or even how it had started. It had gotten as far as it had only because the other officers present had been taken by sur-prise. Neither man had been known to brawl before.

Knecht was not surprised by the fight. He knew the tension between the two over Kelly.

What did surprise him was that Schneider took no official notice of the fight.

Something was happening. Knecht did not know what it was, but he was determined to find out. He decided to do a little intramural spy work of his own.



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