He shook his head.
“Thank God. Then Lindberg is at liberty?”
Udo replied in the affirmative.
Hammersley gave a gasp of relief.
“That is well. I need not worry. He will come and release you.”
Von Winden only frowned.
“Listen, Udo,” went on Hammersley quickly, “Fräulein Mather and I are going down from here, leaving you alone. It can’t be helped. You’ve stumbled up here and you’ve got to take your chance. In time you may wear the strings through against a rock. If you don’t return to Blaufelden by tomorrow, Lindberg will find you.”
“But suppose anything happened to Lindberg,” Doris was whispering. “Ah, Cyril, it would be terrible to leave him here. I should dream of it every night of my life.”
Udo’s eyes smiled at her.
“There is little danger. Graf von Winden is not a man to be so easily beaten. He will get away by tonight. But in the meanwhile we will have gone far enough to be out of his reach.”