From her drawing room window, Justine and Max watched them marching down the slushy street towards the Metro. ‘He’s got nerve, I’ll give him that,’ Max said.‘You’re still not sure of him are you?’‘I can’t make up my mind. He’s either a very brave man or a stupid one, unless of course, he knows he has nothing to fear from the Boche.’‘London said he was OK. He answered all their questions correctly.’‘But that doesn’t necessarily mean they trust him wholeheartedly; he has to prove himself.’ Major Buckmaster had instructed him to give Captain Wainbridge some of the money they had provided him with and they would send more with the next drop, and to tell him to go ahead with organising resistance in Haute Savoie. This was all supposedly done through Justine and her mysterious contact, not Max who still maintained his alias. ‘No doubt they’ll keep a close watch on what he’s up to.’ ‘Giles has told Jeanne Clements to follow him as far as the Gare de Lyon,’ she said.
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