“Ja wohl! You did told Chake Nuttle vat Davidge tells you. Chake Nuttle tells me. I go and make sink the ship!”
“Jake Nuddle! It was Jake that told you!” Mamise faltered, seeing her first vague suspicions damnably confirmed.
“Sure! Chake Nuttle is my Leutnant. He has had much money. He gets more. He shall be rich man after comes Der Tag. It might be we make him von Nuttle! and you shall be Gräfin von Oesten.”
Mamise was in an abject terror. The thick trees of the park were spooky as the dim light of the car elicited from the black wall of dark faint details of tree-trunks and naked boughs stark with winter. She was in a hurry to learn the rest and be gone. She spoke with a poor imitation of pride:
“So I have already done something more for Germany. That’s splendid. Now tell me what else I can do, for I want to––to get busy right away.”
Nicky was too intoxicated with his success to see through her thin disguise.
“You are close by Davidge. Chake Nuttle tells me he is sveet on you. You have his confidence. You can learn what secrets he has. Next time we do not vait for ship to be launched and to go for cargo. It might go some place ve could not find.
“So now ve going blow up those ships before they touch vater––ve blow up his whole yard. You shall go beck and take up again your vork, and ven all is right I come down and get a job. I dress like vorkman and get into the yard. And I bring in enough bombs to blow up all the ships and the cranes and the machines.
“Chake Nuttle tells me Davidge just gets a plate-bending machine. Forty-five t’ousand dollars it costs him, and long time to get. In one minute––poof! Ve bend that plate-bender!”
He laughed a great Teutonic laugh and supposed that 278 she was laughing, too. When he had subsided a little, he said: