One Clear Call by Sinclair Upton;

Author:Sinclair, Upton;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media

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In the morning Lanny paid his visit to the old brick building by the gasworks; he spent the day with the men who had handled the job of getting him out of Italy. He thanked them; and they, being human, would no doubt have been interested to tell him the story of how they had managed it, but that was against the rules. Oh, So Secret! Now and then it was, Oh, So Social!—for this office was staffed largely with men of means, who had been footloose and fancy free and had been attracted by the idea of enacting in real life the thrillers which they had read in the small hours of the morning and which they had seen on the stage and in the movies—and had called “old-hat” and “ten-twenty-thirty.”

They put him through a grilling as thorough as Heinrich Himmler could have provided—except that they didn’t use scopolamine. The German section in the morning and the Italian in the afternoon—they had relays of stenographers and wanted to know everything he had seen, every word that had been said to him, and the names and addresses of every person he had met. For who could tell when some other “Traveler” might be coming through by that route? They might be sending somebody on it any day. The German section was enraptured by the information concerning the Wolf Dietrich Stollen, the salt mine under the Duernberg Mountain, and began that very day a search in the Congressional Library for data on the salt-mining industry of Austria. They promised Lanny they would report any news about Marceline Detaze and Oskar von Herzenberg; also that they would trace the matter of the young doctor who had deserted his charge and would see that he was never again invited to act as a conductor on the underground railroad.

Lanny was flown to New York that evening, and his wife was there with the car which the ever-thoughtful Robbie had sent down. The ever-thoughtful Laurel’s emotion was touching to see. She had been such a proud person, so reserved and independent, but now she couldn’t keep her voice from choking up. When a woman has given her heart to a man, and especially when she has borne him a child, he has become a part of her being, and her welfare is irrevocably bound up with his. Now for a couple of months Laurel had lived with the thought that she might never see her man again; that he might at this moment be dead, or suffering things worse than death. To have him come suddenly down out of the sky, veritably a god out of a machine to her, was happiness almost beyond enduring, and impossible to hide from passengers at an airport.

Driving back to the city, he told her of the program which the Big Boss had laid out for them. For the first time he was free to name F.D.R., for he had said that Laurel was to help. Lanny pledged her

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