The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-08-24
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| the door carefully, he went to the
window and cautiously peered out.
Then he went to a cupboard near by
and opened it. From a shelf he took
pair of opera glasses and returned
| to the window, leveling them at our
laboratory and searching intently
Sing Lee was still gazing through
the glasses out of the window when
he heard someone approaching his out
side door.
Lee jumped to the door and flung
1t open. WI Fang, followed by Long
Sin and Sprague, entered.
Where is Kennedy-is he there?''
demanded WI.
Yes-see-master." returned the
young Chinaman, turning toward the
window.
They all moved over and took up
the field glasses in turn.
Where has he been today?" queried
WI.
"At the fort on Staten Island with
the white girl and a man, Lieutenant
Waters. They are coming to the work
shop across the street tomorrow
morning to see some western magic
with thing named trodite that ex-
plodes."
At the word "explodes" WI glanced
quickly at Sprague.
Il have plan, he remarked subtly,
gathering them all about him and as
signing separate parts to each as he
outlined it,
That night at the fort all was quiet.
In the railroad yards near by stood a
freight train on a siding where 1t had
been drilled late, loaded with a fresh
consignment of the new explosive,
trodite, from the mills.
A sentry was pacing up and down
the cinders beside the train when a
very pretty girl made her way along
the tracks.
"Can you tell me the way to the troll
ley?" she asked.
1t was a perfectly simple question.
But there was no mistaking the look
she gave him. 1t was Flirty F1orrie.
She did not want the trolley. She
wanted to f1irt, and she used her eyes
effectively
1.-Two blocks to the left, madam"
the sentry returned, setting his face
sternly, for he had a sweetheart quite
the equal of F1irty.
Are you a mann" F1irty tainted,
piqued at her failure.
He hesitated not knowing just what
to do. then taking discretion to be
the better part of valor, shouldered
his musket and resumed his measured
tread back and forth, while F1irty,
with a grimace at him, disappeared
toward the trolley.
But while Flirty had engaged his
attention, Sing Lee had come out of
a hiding place near the yards and had
managed to sneak back of the shadow
of the cars.
Between two of the cars sat de-
tective of the secret service smoking
and hating his job. The Chinaman
had passed the first line Of defense.
He now managed to sneak up behind
the second. He raised a Chinese club
and brought it down on the head of
the unsuspecting detective, knocking
him out.
The sentry paced by en- the other
side of the train. Quickly, after he
had passed, the Chinaman went
through the detectives pockets until
finally he found bunch of keys. He
detached one from the ring, still keep
ing in the shadow as the sentry paced
up and down, looked stealthily about
until he saw chance, then unlocked
the door Of the car and entered, clos
ing it safely.
A few minutes later, laden with as
much of the trodite as he could well
carry and bundle Of heavy aero ar
rows he stole away as silently as he
had come.
1t was well after midnight when
Kennedy and were preparing to
leave the laboratory. was just about
to switch OFF the lights when Kennedy
raised his hand to stop me.
The far-away look on his face told
me that he had heard peculiar noise.
He looked quickly at the ceiling.
Listen, Walter" he continued.
did. There was a noise above US
on the roof, apparently as though
someone had slid off.
Il A. ~
and went quickly over to the table
where he had left the periscope.
Carefully putting it together again, he
tiptoed over to the window, put the
periscope out and slowly raised 1t to
the roof.
We gazed through the eyepiece. A.
large white circle had been painted on;
our roof.
What does it mean?" queried
Kennedy was in a brown study.
Suddenly he clapped his hands.
II think have it." he exclaimed.
Walter. take this turpentine Go up
and scrub the circle out. If you need
more. get it. Only remove every
trace of the circle
While was scrubbing away for
dear life at the fresh paint on our
roof Kennedy secured large can Of
white paint and a brush and stealth
! lily made his way to the rear of the
old warehouse across the street.
Kennedy found a shed from which
1t was easy to get to the roof. There
J he set to work. too, Immediately, paint
! ing a large circle on the warehouse
exactly like that on our own roof
| which was erasing.
We went home, and /, at least,
|. thought little more. about the matter:
Quite early the next morning, how
/ ever. we got around to the laboratory
/ again to prepare for the visit of
} Lieutenant Waters in response to
Kennedy's cordial invitation to wit
ness the experiments with trodite.
Our speaking tube sounded finally,
and answered it 1t was Elaine,
! Aunt Josephine and Lieutenant Wa
tiers. who had all arrived at the same
time.
Most peculiar thing, Kennedy" re-
marked the lieutenant after the greet