"I
only know that I called up Washington after I heard he had been at
the hotel, and no one at our headquarters knew that he had
returned. They may have fallen down, but they were to watch both
his rooms and the embassy."
"H-m," mused Kennedy. "Why didn't you say that before?"
"Why, I assumed that he had gone back, until you told me there was
interference to-night, too. Now, until I can locate him definitely
I'm all at sea--that's all."
It was now getting late in the evening, but Kennedy had evidently
no intention of returning yet to Lookout Hill. We paused at the
hotel, which was in the centre of the cottage colony, and flanked
by a hill that ran back of the colony diagonally and from which a
view of both the hotel and the cottages could be obtained. Burke's
inquiries developed the fact that Nordheim had left very hurriedly
and in some agitation. "To tell you the truth," confided the
clerk, with whom Burke had ingratiated himself, "I thought he
acted like a man who was watched."
Late as it was, Kennedy insisted on motoring to the railroad
station and catching the last train to New York.
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