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Rh to make trouble, there will be mischief brewing. And there’s plenty more like him where he came from, too. No, there is still danger for Appledore Island, I am sure of that.”

“Do you think that German clock-maker could have helped him to get away?” Billy  asked. “I have wondered a good deal if they didn’t have something to do with each other.”

“There’s Germans and Germans,” the old man answered. “I put a lot of faith in Johann Happs, but the trouble of it is you  can’t always tell. I think a time is coming, though, coming pretty soon, when things will  show plainly which kind of German is which. But I may be wrong.”

Their talk was interrupted here by a visitor, not a summer tourist this time, but a person of a very different kind. It was Harvey Jarreth, fresh and smiling and sure of himself again, in spite of his unpleasant experience with the naval authorities and his weekend visit to Appledore’s jail. There had been no evidence to bring against him as to his  transactions with the prosperous stranger, so that he had been set free after giving many  promises that he would be more careful in  future. His reputation for shrewdness had