New-York tribune., 1907-10-27

he could fully recover from his effort and regain his
breath \ tall, lean man, whose color emb!e1nS
showed him to be from Missouri, stood above HIM,
while farther back and at higher point the buZzing
of the calciuns and the long restless ray OF iight
showed the location of this searcher of the night
Beneath it he could dimly discern the tower ike
structure on which it was mounted
You'd better get your clothes on suggested the
sentry; or if YOU to, I'll call one OF the other
bows and get him to lend you few dry duds. Sorry
we couldn't have used the lights little sooner and
saved you the trouble of swimming up this tar and
qettin' all wet; but the boss is little shy on carbons
now, so he thought hed make the moon work tor an
hour two this evening.
Hitler discomfited started to don his wet cloth
inc. but the guard insisted in homely phrase that
ba7d he = heap sight better off and run no risk of
catching his death of cold he would just let one OF
the BOYS loan him some clothes tor little while, and
to this he finally assented. This INFINITE pohtenesS
and good humor coating infeXIblllty, was little
You seem to keep pretty good watch along this
YES. fair to middlin'." the sentry said, with
chuckle We've been expecting you all day long.
In fact l suppose you're being expected from here
clear through to Vancouver You're the English
man that's hankerng TO go to Washington.
Hitler turned toward him in amazement What
perfection of espionage was this: For Heaven
sake, mani" he asked his nptor in surprise, how
Watch that streak of light for minute the
sentry answered and as it leveed its ray along the
line he saw here and there field booths with double
lines of wire entering and emerging from them.
"Ones telegraph and telephone, and the others
Yes" he concluded your picture taken IN five dit
ferent positions has been there YOU first tried
to cross the line to-day, and anyway If you'd got
past us fellows you'd have been picked up before
You got very far INTO the interior.
Hitler sat stupehed. Has anybody ever really
got across this linc1
Yes, three or four of them here and there,
mostly out West where the hills IS roughcr but
they all got gathered in sooner or later. One of
er who tried it Jap, and the BOYS accl-
dcntaIiy shot him Another fellow was an English
man, who made it over from Canada INTO Detroit.
So I've heard
What happened to him" Hitler asked, suspect
ing that this was the first bearer OF the message
who had preceded him.
They ddn t want turn him loose, because he
knew too much; 50 they decided he vug. and
run him in till the war is over.
Hitler knew now what had been his predecessors
fate, but made reply.
His informant after a pause continued. There's
been only accident besides that which happened
t. the Jap, and that poor devil that undertook
to 60 in one of these ncwtangled alrshIpe. He
certainly got his tire puncturcd all right and came
down mighty sudden The soldier stopped for
moment and heaVed long sigh, and then concluded
in softer voice. was aWfuv sorry for that fellow.
He wal spy nothing like that but just
Young newspaper chap dong the best he knew how
t. get the goods. He was done for when the boys
picked him up. The Colonel felt about sorry as
anybody else, and got special permission from the
Canadian Government to send a squad back with
him a guard of honor
b, this time Hitler had donncd the dry garments
that had been provided and stood awaiting the
further instructions of his captor. Well. what am
to do;' he inquired, seeing that the man stood
Inotioulcss.
"Oh, YOU can go back across the line. or If YOU
want to one of the BOYS viii find place for YOU to
bunk till morning. You sec. vuu'i, kind Of a dis
tnguishcd guest We all had orders 10 treat YOU
nicely, and the Colonel VIII have machine here 10