Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-01-08

tease take II seat.
OF course, being prisoner. I had
remained standing.
Robinson began osme casual CONVEX
sation.
How are they treating you?"
Il have no complaint to make"
rs the confinement irksome to your"
Naturally"
"Why Not Work for Us?"
Then he suddenly charged front.
Point blank he asked me:
Now old chap. we know that you
worked for Germany against us. We
also know that you are not a German.
Is there any reason why you should
not work for US? Any private rea-
sem"
Captain" I said, you of all men
ought to know that the betrayal of
your employers for a monetary or
liberty reason alone is never enter
! tanned by man who has been in my
work. We SO into it with our eyes
open, well knowing the consequences
I Il We are caught. We do not squeal
we are hurt"
For time he looked at me very
earnestly
Him." he said. "That just bears
out what we have been able to ascer-
tain about you. 1t puzzles us how Il
man of your ability acted the way you
did. From the moment you landed in
England, all the time you were doing
your work, even after your arrest, in
prison and in cout you showed a
sort of listless, an almost Indifferent
attitude. II I may put it in this way,
you seemed in no ways keen to go to
extremes in any possible missions you
might have had" He paused. 1--WE
think you could have done more than
you did The mildness of your
sentence, has it surprised your"
1 grinned.
Nothing surprises me, Captain"
His manner became very earnest.
-"Supposing," he said, I'VE show you
that it was quasi deliberate inten-
ton on the part of your employers
to have you caught-what them"
This did not startle me either. L
had had an idea of that all along.
Under these circumstances" I said.
81 am open to negotiations. But 1 am
rather deaf and my vision is very
much obscured as long as I see bars
in front Of my window"
The Captain smiled.
"Well, Doctor, 1 may see you again
soon."
The Proof ! Asked for.
l was taken back to my cell. 1 am
frank to admit that didn't sleep much
for the next two or three nights.
But as I expected. another week
Captain Robinson again. This
time it was late in the evening after
Ill the prisoners were shut up tight.
The lieutenant governor himself took
ne into the governors office. No
,ther warden or prison official OBJ
served us.
"Well, Doctor" was the way Rob-
nson greeted me- 81 have something
lefinite to propose to you. You can
,e of use to us. You have still sixteen
months of your sentence to serve.
Are you willing to give these sixteen
months of your time to us-terms to
&c agreed upon later? 1 am prepared
O supply you with proofs that you
we're deliberately put away, betrayed
" your employers, the German gov
He did so to my complete salts
action. AS I guessed. I had come to
earn so much of Germany's affairs
hat 1 was dangerous. To betray me
2 such away that l would not suspect
nd spueal was a clever way to close
~ mouth for seven years in Jail or
ntil vital plans had matured.
How would you suggest that we
o about it?" he asked.
ITO be of the slightest degree of use
you, NOBODY must kHOW VI my iS
,ase," 1 added. Here is my sugges-
on. l must leave the execution of 1t
you. The impression l conveyed
round Edinburgh was that my health
rather Indifferent. So it is also be-
eyed here in prison On these grounds
should be an easy matter for you
have me ostenibly transferred to an
her prison: instead Of which, have
q taken wherever you wish to. l see
, necessity that. outside the lieuten-
,t-governor, the governor and your
IL. any one needs know of II"
Yes. yes" said Robinson. THAT CO.
cides with my own Ideas and plans
Presently ne departed and ! went
lck again to my cell.
Alone and Free.
Ar half-past five the next morning. |