Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
Derore. became winter ana aim

ments perore. became winter ana DIM
mer.
The street lamps went out, and
garish were the electric lights which
showed the ruin of the salon In the
house of the spies. Two police motor
wagons backed before the door were
removing the men and the women
caught in the house, except the girl
who had struggled with Jim Ashby
and one Of the men who had been on
guard. An ambulance already had
taken the girl to a hospital, where d
surgeon would repair the artery in her
arm cut by the broken glass. The
body Of the guard was to be removed
later.
In the dining room Jim Ashby and
Sibert spread upon the table the letters
which haa been saved. There were
only scraps or eharred bits in addition
to the bundle of unchanged papers
which Jim had saved; the spies had
succeeded in burning or otherwise de-
~stroying all the rest. Sibert sponged
lIC SitClS vi paper VIII a NhCAAiNoh
solution which he had brought, and be-
tween the lines Of typewriting SEN
fences of script came out in clear,
brown characters.
"How many more letters we're there?"
Sibert asked.
81 got maybe a fourth Of those In
sight"
The secret service man gazed down
at the letters grimly. "These are a
quarter of the orders they were send
ing out from here. Ashby, think Of
this sort Of thing going on all over the
country this morning.
The newspaper delivery boy was hur-
rying up the walk with the morning
paper which had been held q little
later than usual for the last WAR Ex-
tra' when Jim reached his fathers
house.
"a Million Men Calledw the headline
blared across the top of the front page.
"a Million Men Needed For Imme-
date Servicei"
"Hostile fleet, approaching u shores,
sinks American scout cruiser Salient
Commander Barrett, violating instruc-
tons to take presidents advisers to
Haiti, discovers powerful feet In north
Atlantic. Salem Immediately fred on,
but before sinking succeeds in flashing
warning to Washington!
Hostile feet contains t~wenty-six
ships of the first line-four dread
naughts Of the Zeus class, six of the
Trajan, four of the Pharaoh, six of the
Sargon and two of the Thor, with four
battle cruisers of the Carthage class.
Fleet more powerful than our strong
est combination! Our ships scattered.
Army Of the prince regent, at least
100000 strong, now on transports or
ready to take ship to attack u coasts;
100000 men will be landed on our
shores within month Is enemy's plan!
To oppose these president calls for
100000 men for immediate service.
In all night council with cabinet and
war chiefs apportionment has been
made between states and size of levy
required telegraphed to all governors.
New York leads list with apportion-
ment of 100000 soldiers at once. Penn
sylvania asked to supply 100000. ILL.,
nois required to muster $1,000 imme-
diately."
He looked through the other age of
the paper--it was a Chicago morning
paper-for the notice of the discovery
and capture Of the spies, but either the
news had reached the paper too late or
Sibert had prevented 1t from being
printed. He found an article under an
Elgin date line that the body of a me.
chanic named Ingouf-identified by the
number on his motorcycle-had been
found in a field outside of Elgin. He
appeared to have been killed as the re-
suit of some violent explosion after a
fight with two men who disappeared
in an automobile.
Jim went back to the kitchen, where
the cook voluble and excited = gave
him breakfast. Then he went away
from the house on the road to town.
Flags were being raised above houses
as If it were Memorial day or the
Fourth of July. They were flying
above school buildings and draped in
front of stores. The stars and stripes
were everywhere.
WAR; The word was on every
(To Be Cont1nued.)