Valentine Williams

Name: The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16
Author: Valentine Williams

The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

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“The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16”, published in 1918, is a work by Valentine Williams. It explores elements such as Clubfoot, Haase and frontier.

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ Francis did not once interrupt the flow of my narrative. He listened with the most tense interest but with a growing concern which betrayed itself clearly on his face. At the end of my story, I silently handed to him the half of the stolen letter I had seized from Clubfoot at the Hotel Esplanade.
"Keep it, Francis," I said. "It's safer with a respectable waiter like you than with a hunted outcast like myself!" ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ All through my wanderings, I had kept this forest in the back of my head as a region which must offer facilities for slipping unobserved across the frontier. Now I learnt from Francis that he had spent months in the vicinity of Cleves, and I was not surprised to find, when I outlined this plan to him, that he knew the Reichswald pretty well.
"It'll be none too easy to get across through the forest," he said doubtfully, "it's very closely patrolled, but I do know of one place where we could lie pretty snug for a day or two waiting for a chance to make a dash. ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ Francis linked his arm in mine.
"And now, Des," he said in his old affectionate way, "tell me some more about Monica!"
Out of that talk germinated in my head the only plan that seemed to offer us a chance of escape. I was quite prepared to believe Francis when he declared that the frontier was at present impassable: if the vigilance had been increased before it would be redoubled now that I had again eluded Clubfoot. We should, therefore, have to find some cover where we could lie doggo until the excitement passed. ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ He paused a moment reflectively.
"There is a code of honour in our game, old man," he said, "and there are lots of men in the German secret service who live up to it. We give and take plenty of hard knocks in the rough-and-tumble of the chase, but ambush and assassination are barred."
He took a deep breath and added:
"But the man Clubfoot doesn't play the game!"
"Francis," I said, "I wish I'd known something of this that night I had him at my mercy at the Esplanade. He would not have got off with a cracked skull . . . with one blow. ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ He scrutinized the slips of paper very closely, then tucked them away in a letter-case, which he buttoned up in his hip pocket.
"Fortune is a strange goddess, Des," he said, his weary eyes roving out over the turgid, yellow stream, "and she has been kind to you, though, God knows, you have played a man's part in all this. She has placed in your possession something for which at least five men have died in vain, something that has filled my thoughts, sleeping and waking, for more than half a year. ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ The whole place will be overrun with people, guests, servants, beaters and the like, for these shoots. Both you and I know German and we look rough enough: we ought to be able to get an emergency job about the place without embarrassing Monica in the least. I don't believe they will ever dream of looking for us so close to this frontier. The only possible trail they can pick up after me in Berlin leads to Munich. Clubfoot is bound to think I am making for the Swiss frontier. ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ The Germans are clever enough, as we know from their communiqués, to tell the truth when it suits their book. I believe that Clubfoot was telling you the truth in what he said about his mission that night at the Esplanade.
"You and I know now that the Kaiser wrote that letter . . . we also know that it was addressed to an influential English friend of William II. You have seen the date . . . Berlin, July 31st, 1914 . . . the eve of the outbreak of the world war. Even from this half in my pocket . . . ”

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Valentine Williams, The Man with the Clubfoot — Chapter 16 (1918)

“ I landed in Berlin with the knowledge that no roof could safely shelter me until I got a fresh lot of papers.
"I knew of Kore—I had heard of him and his shirkers' and deserters' agency in my travels—and I went straight to him. He sent me to Haase's . . . this was towards the end of June. It was when I was at Haase's that I sent out that message to van Urutius that fell into your hands. That happened like this. ”

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