The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-08-11

choking him when he laughed at me.
| And well he might be amused. Doubt
leus had had the whole secret In
INV hands. al least could have made
sure OF whether or not the fair Anita
was our prey.
Absently I stood In the library pom
dering the matter when one OF the
attendants came to me with note
on a tray. Under 1t lay the thin wal
| let empty.
The note read:
Dear Dunk: Go to Yorkgille Court
in the morning at nine and appear
against the Baron Won oldenhaus,
charged with larceny Of your wallet
ON the street. Get postponement.
He is In the custody of Sergeant Crea-
gan In the Hotel st. Auburn. and II
| remanded to Creagan's custody may
be kept out of the game tomorrow.
| Join me at the hayward at noon.
We are near the finish. RAND.
| was too tired to puzzle over the
| last strange turn Of events, and In
| half an hour was at home and asleep.
At Yorkville Court found that the
Baron Won Oldenhaus" OF Rand's
note was my tall, dark friend Of the
night previous. / got him remanded
in Creagan's custody as suggested.
| It was nearing eleven when left the
| court and ! hurried to the hayward,
reading on my way a note which
Creagan had passed me in answer to
my whispered request as to what
statement the Baron had made to him.
Creagan said that the Baron's YER
sion was that he had been instructed
| by his government to come to the
United States, get in touch with An
| tia Desarte, and while maintaining a
| friendly relationship between them,
make sure that she was properly serv-
| ing the bureau of military intelli-
| gence at Berlin In securing some In
| formation on battleship construction.
He had followed her to the New Am
sterdam theater, had seen her encoun'
ter me and had trailed us to her home
Just after left she had come run
ming out in great excitement to look
| for her lost wallet. Hearing her
story the tall, dark man had followed
me, stepping from his taxi, and had
snatched the wallet out Of my hands
himself the moment 1 had picked
1t up. Just as the tall man thought
himself safely away, a gentleman who
spoke German had drawn up beside
his taxi In an electric hanson, and
calling a police officer, had the tall
man arrested, and the police had TAX
en- the wallet from him.
So Rand in person had been follow
| ing Anita Desalte and me. Well, that
was one of his ways, and he took
a certain pleasure in his cleverness.
That pleasure was plainly written in
his smile as he said good morning"
to me In the commandments Office at
the navy-yard.
"Creagan has already telephoned me
the result in court" he began. Nov,
let us see If we can do as well on
| this side of the river. We want the
person taking the information and
the sender in the party, and his meth
cd. That is where we balk. Never
III dill my SApSllSuSO nave DSSh
without a vestige of theory as to
how messages can be transmitted
from one confederate to another IN
der such guard and such conditions.
| Why, we are even sure that as the
reports cover the afternoon OF one
day and the morning of the next
are filed in the afternoon before three
o'clock that the information goes out
shortly after noon. But how, how,
how"
He walked up and down a moment
thinking, then he turned to the COM
mandant and said:
as it possible for you to have a
detail of eight men to carry Mr.. Dun
can and myself under sheets in
stretchers across the yard back and
forth once or twice during the noon
hour. Have the men go slowly, and
by the time we are through with that
/ will have found some other device
for lettering before that barrack Sec
ton from which the information must
proceed, without appearing to be on
the watch"
In ten minutes a stretcher detail
took me as a sick man across the
yard; in fifteen minutes another took
Rand. saw nothing though my eyes
travelled over everything in view. As
soon as he was around the corner of
the building, where we awaited him,
he leaped out of the stretcher and
calling to me to follow. ran to the
back door Of the barracks. He whist
led in at Lieutenant Dunton's window
and got US admitted. and in another
minute we stepped into the room
where the men were resting.
All was quite as it had been the
two days l was there. The men did
not hear us enter. They were smok,
ing and chatting, and by the window
Sloane was laboriously writing to his
wife a brief message that must pass
under Lieutenant Duntons eye. A ST.
lence fell over the other men In the
place. They saw that something was
about to happen.
Rand stepped quietly up behind