[Greenmantle by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link bookGreenmantle CHAPTER SEVEN 10/41
on the left hand.
I left him running among the trees.' I put all the terror I knew into my pipe, and it wasn't all acting. 'He means the Henrichs' cottage, Herr Colonel,' said the chauffeur. 'This man is courting the daughter.' Stumm gave an order and the great car backed, and, as I looked round, I saw it turning.
Then as it gathered speed it shot forward, and presently was lost in the shadows.
I had got over the first hurdle. But there was no time to be lost.
Stumm would meet the postman and would be tearing after me any minute.
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