Bitterly she reproached herself that she had
allowed herself to care for him. Shamedly she confessed to herself that
she still loved him--even now.
"Your great work accomplished," Otto continued, "remember your orders.
Forty miles due east of Sandy Hook there will be lying two great
submarines, waiting to take you off--not U-boats, but two of our
powerful, wonderful new X-boats, big enough to destroy any of their
little cruisers that are patrolling the coast, fast enough to escape any
of their torpedo boats. How important the war office judges your work
you may realize from this--it is the first mission on which these new
X-boats have been dispatched. They are out there now. We have had a
wireless from them. They are waiting to convey six heroes back to the
Fatherland, where the highest honors will be bestowed on them at the
hands of our Emperor himself. Herr Captain and Comrades--"
He stopped abruptly, and there came into his face a pained look of
surprise, of terror.
_"Was is dass?_" he cried in alarm.
One of Fleck's men in hiding out there in the shadow of the building
had been seized by an irresistible desire to sneeze.
The terrifying suspicion that there had been some uninvited spectator
outside, listening to their plotting, swept over the whole room.
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