CHAPTER XXXIV

Klemm, rejoicing in the capture of Noll, made haste with his business of getting rid of the English girls. He wanted to get rid of Noll, too, and to use him at the same time. That would be, as the Germans say, “to swat two flies with one slap.” Klemm knew Dimny already well enough to realize that he could make her no gift that would so enhance him in her eyes as the privilege of being the bearer of a flag of rescue to the beleaguered daughters of England, of bringing the relief to Lucknow in person. He offered to t…