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The following morning Sarle was up betimes and scanning anxiously across the marsh road. "Seven o'clock," he muttered, frowning, "he ought to be here by now, even if he had to take a detour round. Two hours should have been quite long enough and he was to meet the man at five." He swore savagely. "Damn, if anything should have gone wrong."
Colonel Jasper joined him presently and with a very wearied expression on his face, stood blinking in the sun.