[The Midnight Passenger by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookThe Midnight Passenger CHAPTER IV 32/36
I will not stir a step till I see him.
Send it up." And Emil made a significant gesture with a defiant thumb. Audacity carried the day! Young Einstein, coolly purchasing a Regalia and seating himself at a table, grinned a last defiance as a "Kellner" finally touched his arm and led him into a vacant card-room. Down a stairway came the sounding tread of a heavy man, and Einstein was in the presence of Mr.Fritz Braun. "It's about him, Clayton," faltered the boy, awed at his employer's lowering face. "Come with me," harshly said Braun, as he led the lad up to the third floor.
When they had entered a rear sleeping-room, Braun locked the door.
"Tell me all," he anxiously cried.
"Out with it. If you lie you'll never leave this house, remember!" With chattering teeth, the lad delivered himself of his discovery. It was only after half an hour of cross questioning that Braun was satisfied with the details of Robert Wade's espionage of Randall Clayton.
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