Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-24
By
BROUGHTON
BRANDENBURG.
The Mystery at the Navy Yard s %%$ss

cab in an electric hanson, and calling police off,
GER had the arrested and the police had taken
the wallet from him.
So Rand in person had been following Anita De-
sarte and me. Well, that 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 commandments
Office at the navy yard
"Creagan has already teephoned me the result
in court" he began Nov let see if we can do
as we'll 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 balk.
Never in all my experience have been without
vestige of theory to how messages can be
transmitted from confederate to another under
such guard and such conditions. Why, we are even
sure that as the reports the afternoon of
day and the morning of the next and are 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 moment thinking.
then he turned to the commandant and said:
rs it possible for you to have detail
of eight men to carry Mr.. 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 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 sick
man across the yard; in fifteen minutes another
took Rand. / nothing though my eyes trav-
eled over everything in view AS he was
around the corner of the building where We await
ed him. he eaped out of the stretcher and calling to
me to follow ran to the back door of the barracks.
He whistled in at Lieutenant Dunton's window and
got us admitted, and in another moment we STEP
ped into the room where the men were resting
All was quite as it had been the two days was
there. The men did not hear enter. They
were smoking and chatting, and by the window
Sloan was laboriously writing to his wife a brief
message that must pass under Lieutenant Duntons
eye. silence fell the other men in the place.
They saw that something was about to happen.
Rand stepped quietly up behind Sloan and watch
ed him closely for a minute. By Joye! now
saw that at intervals Sloane 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 was sending telegraph
cally His movement was so light that only eyes
as keen as Rand's would have dscerned 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
Stone and McCready carefully, Lieutenant Dunton.
Now to find the receiver. Come, Dunk, 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 were some clerks and steno-
graphers lounging most innocently just as had
them the first day. All were talking, save at
window, where woman stenographer with her
hat and veil on ready for the street. stood staring
intently toward the gate of the yard, just saw
her the first day. Rand looked at her keenly, then
strobe up behind her, peered searchingly at the
back of her head, and said:
Every sorry to interrupt you, Miss Desarte, but
the man who sending to you is under arrest 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 off her hat and its net
drapery
''Will you look at these, Duncan" said Rand
aiming them curiously. "This veil is traversed
with fine film of tiny receiving wires and on this
broad hat it 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 pricks the dots and dashes
of the notes she makes of the messages. Permit me
to say Miss Desarte this is the most ingenious con-
trivance have Who is the inventor.
may ask?"
81 am" she said proudly.
rs it all clear now?" said Rand left the
place after turning the three prisoners over to the
commandant.
"All but Miss Desarte's night visit" said l.
"Oh, she brought that piece of wire to lay it
where McCready had told her. He wanted it to
repair his sender. I found it in the crown of his
hat"
We ready to prove cases in their entire
ty against the fair Anita the expert Sloane and the
very able and intellectual McCready, with the
Baron thrown in for good measure, but having pre-
itu Tho a1uoo f xvhic will he aD-