The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-05-18

ferred to In washington as statesmen
What draught of salt water would
be to traveller in the desert this In
formation is to the go-between. His
thirst for facts has become a fire.
What is said in the letters?" ibid
he say that?" II want the originals
not photographs. I'll photograph
them myself and return them to you
if you have to have them back" "You
haven't got them with you now?
You'll meet me here tomorrow night
and bring them?"
I'm not the man who wrote to
your boss. I'm the friend Of that
man. He did not want to let him.
self be known In this matter until
he was sure you meant business. So
he sent me to represent him. He'll
know as soon as 1 see him that you
are all right. He'll meet you at this
spot tomorrow night at the same hour
you met me. He'll have a toothpick
in his hatband and you must have
two in yours. And he'll bring tbe let.
tiers with him."
The man with one toothpick met
the man with two and delivered the
goods next morning. He took the
usual precautions to get his money
first-$300 in the smallest bills-but
he turned over the original letters-or
rather the carbon copies of them-and
they were all that they had been rep
resented to be-. They not only corrob-
Grated everything that had been said
about the corporation, but they con-
tanned names and references that to
the go-between suggested almost In
finite ramifications of the matter In
hand. Where a few had been sus-
pected dozen were now found guilty.
His brain drank in like sponge ev'
cry word, every suggestion, every fine
shade of meaning. What an index OF
crime! What catalogue Of corpora
ton corruption! But he must have
the books Of which he held the In
dices. These books" were all the
letters that had been written to or
received from the men whose names
were mentioned in the letters that he
held.
Like hawk on chicken this poll
tical harpy swooped down on the
clerk.
1--WE must have these letters-every
one of them. Get the originals, or the
carbon copies, as the case may be,
If you think you can do 1t without be-
ing caught. If you can get them to
me, even for an hour. I can photo
graph them and return them to you.
If you can't get them out for an hour
copy them in shorthand. Any way
you can-but get them-get them.
Mind you, every letter, every tele-
gram. And meet me day after to-
morrow about this time. There's one
hundred dollars in 1t for you"
Two days elapse and they meet
again. The clerk is as good as his
word. He's got everything-letters,
kilograms and carbon copies of let
tiers. But he must have them back
by midnight. That's all right Ev-
erything has been arranged. In an
hour a camera has memorized every
letter, every crease In the apper, ev-
cry blot on page. And the next
day, whenever opportunity offered,
some of these bits of papers were re-
turned to their proper places in the
filing cabinets. By night everything
was where 1t should be. Thank God,
the penitentiary draws back into the
shadow!
But the mountainside Is not yet in
! ashes, and the strong wind is still
blowing. The politician, goaded by
his newspaper, is now more searching
| than the gales of March. Every let
| ter of the second batch has dragged
in new names and new suggestions
Where there was before demand
for so letters there is now a call for
500 more. He must have every let
ter to or from score of different
men. If possible, he must have the
head officials private letter book, IN
which are ink copies of his most Sc
cret correspondence. More than that
he must have the key to the tele
graphic code used by the head official
His kilograms are mass OF jargon
of which the A B G code book makes
nothing. Look at this telegram, fol
instance, addressed to prominent
SENATOR
Behavior mundane kennel moodily
tabulated."
This is not the actual telegram, but
it illustrates the point that vexed the
politician. The A B c code book says
this telegram should be translated az
follows:-
beware has been murdered If yol
will keep silent money Is rather mors
abundant l will not take it."
Meaningless! The key, the key
the key! Get it at any cost. Have i
here tomorrow night If you dom
have anything else.
what makes you so late?" says
the political emissary the next morn
ing. "Have you got the key to thu
private code? You have? Good
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