Arizona republican., 1908-06-02
TheMystery at the Navy Yard
By BROUGHTON BRANDENBURG.

cab in an electric hanson, and calling police off, cer had the man arrested and the police had taken the wallet fEpm him.
 So Rand in person had been following Anita De- sarte and me. Well, that was his way and he took certain pleasure in his ceverness. That pleasure was plainly written in his smile he said good morning to me in the commandants s office at the navy yard.
 "Creagan has already teephoned me the result in court he began Now let us see if We can do well on this side of the river. We want the per- son taking the information and the sender in the party. and his method That is where We balk. Never in all my experience have I been without a yestge of a thCCry to how messages be transmitted from confederate to another under such guard and ich conditions. Why, we are even sure that as the reports cover the afternoon of one day and the Eorning of the next and filed in the afternoon before three o'clock that the infor- nation goes out shortly after noon. But how, how, how?"
 He walked up and down a moment thinking. then he turned to the commandant and said:
 "Is it possible for you to have detail of eight to carry Mir Duncan and myself under sheets in stretchers across the yard back and forth once or twice dur ing the noon hour. Have the men go slowly and by the time through with that I will have found some other device for lettering before that barrack section from which the information must proceed, without appearing to be on the watch"
 In ten minutes stretcher detail took me as a sick man across the yard in fifteen minutes another took Rand. I saw nothing though my eyes tray eed over everything in view. As soon as he was around the of the building where We await ed him, he leapej out of the stretcher and calling to follow. the back door of the barracks. He whistled in at Lieutenant Duntons window and ly,,;tf tod ped into the room where the resting
 All was quite it had been the two days waJ there. The did not hear us enter They smoking and chatting, and by the window Sloan laborousy writing to his wife brief message that must pass under Lieutenant DuntonIs eye silence fell over the other in the place. They saw that something was about to happen
 Rand stepped quietly up behind Sloan and watch ed him closely for minute. By Jovei I saw that at intervals Sloane was touching with his pen two tiny spots of bright copper the end of the big roll of his portfolio and it was plain from the manner of his touch he sending telegraph cally His movement so light that only eyes as keen as Rand's would have discerned it.
 Rand stepped back from the window out of sight in the depths of the room.
 Sloane come here to me-" he said sternly
 The sprang to his feet pale and tottering. He hurriedly laid down his portfolio and pen.
 Bring that thing with you
 Sloane did as bid, then. and Rand tore the port folio apart and disclosed the mechanism for nina ture wireless sender
 Place all these under arrest and guard Sone and McCready carefully, Lieutenant Dunton. Now to find the receiver. Come, Dunk, I think know where to look
 We shot out the back way and popped into the stretchers and in few minutes had entered the headquarters building
 Leaving the two details We hurried straight through to the front, Rand leading the way. Then he stopped. puzzled.
 By George. that fellow was sending straight at these windows
 About the windows some clerks and steno- graphers lounging most innocently just I had them the first day All were talking save at one window, where woman stenographer with her hat and veil on ready for the street staring intenty toward the gate of the yard just as l saw her the first day. Rand looked at her keenly then strode up behind her. peered searchinsly at the back of her head, ana sad
 Very sorry to interrupt you. Miss Desarte, but the man who was sending to you is under and so are you now. Too bad you spend so much time at the beaches
 She shrugged her shoulders and laughed as at his suggestion. she took of her hat and its net drapery
 Will you look at these, Duncan?' said Rand ex- amining them eurously. This veil is traversed with fine film of tiny receiving wires and on this broad hat 1t must act beautifully. In the crown is the remainder of the mechanism and here in Miss Desartes hand is military telegrapher's re- ceving roll which she bricks the and j2shes of the notes she makes of the messages. Permit me to say, Miss Desarts. this is the ingenious con- trivance have ever seen. Who is the inventor, may I ass?'
 'I am," she said proudly.
 ''Is it all clear now?' said Rand as left the place after turning the three prisoners the cOmmandaIt
 All but Miss Desartes night visit" said I.
 ''Oh, she brought that piece of wire to lay 1t where McCready had told her. He wanted it to