"What's that?" he asked sharply.
"You can settle with him on your next trip. You won't get in before dark if you stop to discuss it now."
"I will," he said, with a muttered oath and a glance at the discomfited farmer.
Then he set the engine going, we stood back, Nessa waved her hand to me, and they were off.
I watched the bus across the field, rise, circle round on the climb up, point her nose frontierwards, and I strained my eyes after her until she entered a cloud and passed out of sight.
CHAPTER XXVIII
RECOGNIZED
Glocken was furious at the trick I had played him. "You think yourself mighty smart, don't you?" he said with an oath as we went back.
"One too many for you, eh?" I chuckled. Relief at Nessa's safety made me comparatively indifferent about everything else. The job which had brought me to Germany was done, and for the moment nothing else seemed to matter.