Chapter 18
THE ONE WAY OUT Estermen started up from his chair. In the unlit room the figure of his master seemed to have assumed a portentous, almost a threatening shape. "Who's that?" he cried out. Falkenberg calmly turned on the electric light. "Still here, my friend?" he remarked significantly. Estermen began to tremble. "There is plenty of time," he faltered. "I am not sure about the man opposite. It may be some one else he is watching." Falkenberg walked to the window and stood there in the full glare of the light. The man opposite was still sipping his eternal coffee. He glanced casually at Falkenberg and back at his paper. "You fool!" the latter said to Estermen. "Can't you see that he is waiting only to draw the others in? Do you know that I--I, Von Falkenberg, Chancellor of Germany,
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