Agent sitting beside him in the limousine. There was an eighteen-hour lag between the time he had landed at Vanden-berg and the time he would report to Hoffman's office at the Jet.

After I had left Fenchurch Street behind me and drifted into literature I forgot him. Until one day I received a letter addressed to the care of my publishers. It bore the Swiss postmark and opening it and turning to the signature I sat wondering for the moment where I had met "Horatio Jones. " And then I remembered. He was lying bruised and broken in a woodcutter's hut on the slopes of the Jungfrau. .
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Off the steam " said Marco. "What does that mean?" asked the boy. "Why that they have got the steam up and are letting off a little of it while they are waiting for something. Perhaps they are waiting for us. Drive on as fast as you can. " A moment after this the sound of the steam suddenly ceased and the great paddle wheels on the sides of the boat began slowly to revolve. "They are trying to get her off " said Marco. "I _do hope_ they can't start her. Drive on; drive on as fast as you can. " They were at this time upon the top of a hill which commanded a fine view of the river and of the scenery upon its banks. The mill was before them too in full view. But Marco was too much engaged in watching the movements of the boat to regard the scenery. The boy drove rapidly down the hill. They reached the mill in a very few minutes and drove down to the bank of the river by a road which led to the water a short.
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