The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1914-11-27


ferent way to what ] had left it.
called my landlady and casually in
quired If my tailor had been there
She said, mo, Doctor"
WELL" l replied, what reason have
you then to rearrange my clothes?"
Her face Redeemed and she seemed
fiustered.
I wasn't In your ROOM" she fal
tered. Il remember now. / believe the
tailor was here. One of the servants
let him in"
81 made it my business to go around
to my tailor's within an hours time
and he contradicted her story. He had
not been at the house.
l recognized it as an occasion where
| had to make right royal bluff
went at once to police headquarters in
Edinburgh. | asked for Chief Con-
stable Ross, and sent in my card bear
ing DR.. A. X. Graves, uro, S. Austria
liza. Presently l was shown into the
chiefs room and was received by a
typical Scottish gentleman. / opened
fire in this way:
Have you any reason to believe
that am German spy"
| saw that it had knocked him off
his pins.
Why, no." he said, startled. Il
don't know anything at all about It."
It's not by your orders, then, that
I am followed?"
Certainly not" he replied.
He bowed me out. OF course. |
knew l still would be shadowed, which
did not mind in the least
A Wrongly Addressed Letter.
About a week after my experience
with Constable Ross, | received infor-
nation that William Beardmore & Co,
of Glasgow, were constructing some
new 14-incb guns for the British gov
eminent. That meant a change Of
base.
at once made it my business to go
to Glasgow and get particulars. in
stalled myself in the Central station
hotel and in few weeks gained all
the information I wanted While in
Glasgow l received letters addressed
to me as James Stafford. | received
two such letters, and upon calling at
the General Post Office for third, l
was informed that there was a letter
for A. Stafford.
"Oh, yes, that is my letter. | said.
The clerk demurred and replied:
You asked for James Stafford. I'm
Ter those circumstances | cannot hand
you this letter. 1t is against the postal
aw."
Not being in position to raise a |
question, let it go at that, never for !
moment thinking that my employers
would be so culpably careless as to /
tut any discriminating evidence in the
nail. Events proved that that is just
What they did. Moreover later came
o know why that particular letter
vas addressed not to James but to A.
stafford. All my previous letters were
ddressed to me as Dr. A. X. Graves
nd were enclosed in the business en-
elope of a well-known chemical firm
f Snow Hill, London, E. (Which
aper had been fabricated for the pur-
ose. OF course, the letters were sent
-om the continent to London and
here reposted.
When | left Edinburgh to find out
bout the finch guns, | gave our
sople in London instructions to use
ain envelopes and to address them ,
James Stafford, G. P. o., Glasgow.
he first two letters were addressed ,
,rrectly and plain envelopes were ,
;ed The third was not only mis-
but was enclosed in one of ,
e Chemical company's envelopes +
is, as later learned, for reason. +
No one having called for it. the let 9
r was returned to the chemical COM r
ny At their office it was opened T
d found to contain a typewriter f
ter in German language and five h
n-pound notes on the Bank of Eng c
I'd. The contents of the letter was r
CHI as to lead the firm to call in the y
lice. u
here's a Gentleman Down Stairs to h
See YOU" G
On the evening of April IA, had II
It put on my evening clothes and
ne to the upstairs writing-room. I c,
s awaiting a party of gentlemen Al
o were coming to dine with me il n,
hotel. There came a "buttonss
@ announced: =,
There's a gentleman downstairs IN ~
you, Doctor h,
\ premonition stole over me IN
sw that my guests would not have he
It for me to come down but would ev
re been announced. / realized that 90
was going to be caught there was or
avoiding it. Secret service makes a in
n fatalist. 90
had hardly reached the last step of 10,
grand stairway when four big III
n-clothes men bounced upon me.
Re for the fun of it than anything tb,
J, / guess, got on my horse and az,
landed to know what was the mat
me
You'll soon know" Inspector French not
AIRED. ,v.
The Search-and Prison. vii
e then ordered his men to search this
and seemed amazed when they ter
dn't find any six shooters, daggers ?
,ombs. | was taken back to my Or,