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“I don’t know They’re lying”

“Why would the Ar you?”

“I don’t know”

“Yes, you do”

“I am not a deserter”

“I know you’re not That’s what makes it worse”

“Worse?”

“The Gerswerk steal your invention”

“I’ll be OK when I get to America”

Isaac Bell asked the question he had come to Clyde’s cabin to ask “Did you ever hear the Professor mention a name or a word that sounded like ‘acrobat’?”

Lynds turned pale “Why do you ask?”

“When Professor Beiderbecke asked me to protect you, it was the last word he spoke ‘Acrobat’”

“Oh uy didn’t fall overboard?”

“You knoho I mean”

“Yes,” Clyde admitted “He’s the one Is he really on the ship?”