Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-30
.But we waste time that is precious.
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.

|"But we waste time thai Is precious.
To-night--
Before another word is spoken, let
me have your card-your Wilhelm-
strasse number" Woodhouse demand
ed.
II carry no. card. I am more dis
Greet than-some," the other answer
ed in~sinuatinglyS
"No card?. Your number, then?"
Jainihr Kahn brought his lips close
to the white mans ear and whispered
q number.
''Is that not %correct2" he asked.
Woodhouse NODDED CURLY.
"And now that we are properly in
|troduced," Jaimihr began, with q
Icriticism? Your pardon, Captain;
but our critics, they help us to per-
lection. Since when have men who
come from the Wilhelmstrasse allow
ed themselves to make love in drawing
Erooms?"
you and the young woman from
America-when I found you together
here yesterday
THAT is my affair."" was Wood
houses hot response.
1.-The affair on which we work-this
night-that Is my affair, be veree
6uTet lll0E6 WdS bOAIl0IIlA1l6 VI &AA0ns
ace in the Indians tone. =.
Woodhouse bowed to his demand
for an explanation. 'That young
woman, Is 1t happens, must be kept
on our side. She saw me in France,
wherD Captain Woodhouse was sup
posed to be in Egypt"
"Ah, so2" Jaimihr inclined his
head with a slight gesture craving
pardon. For that reason you make
~ n 5lS lN.a - -
mo matter. The fleet sails al
noon"
"And u moment is hereto
night" Jaimihr whispered in exulta-
ton. mot until today did they! ad-
NIT you to the tower. Captain. How
is 1t there?
"a simple matter-with the COM
bination to the door Of Room D."
With q single stride the Indian was
over before the door Of the wall safe.
He pointed.
"The combination Of the inner door
1T is in a special compartment OF
that safe. protected by many wires
Before dawn I cut the wires-and
come to you with the combination"
whatever hour is best for you,'
Woodhouse put In eagerly.
Let us say thr%ee-thirty." Jaimihr
answered. You will be waiting for
me at the Hotel Splendide Wilbur
friends there. I shall come to you
there, give you the combination, and
you shall go through the lines to the
signal tower"
There must be no slip" Wood.
house sternly warned.
Not on my. part, Cap-tain-coun,
on that. For Ave years / have beer
Notwithstanding. Five years a serv.
ant-yes, my General; no, my Gen.
eral; very good, my General" The
mans voice vibrated with hate. ITO.
morrow, lea dawn-the English fee,
shattered and ablaze in the harbor-
the water red. like blood. with the
flames. Then, by the breath Of Allah
my service ends!"
Voices sounded in the hallway out.
side the double doors. Jaimihr Kahn
g finger to his lips, nodded as hi
whispered: st'Three-thirty. at the
Splendide." He faded like, a white
wrath through the door to Genera,
CrandalIs room as the double doors
opened and the masculine faction O.
the dinner party entered. Wood.
house rose from e STOPPING positiof
the general, whose sharp scrutin,
stabbed like thin knives, he made
plausible explanation. The beggal
who lost his bag wanted a complete
Identification Of it-had run it dowr
at Algeciras.
II understand" Crandall grunted.
When the cigars were lit, Genera
Crandall excused himself for a minute
at his desk, and hurriedly scratch.
ed a note. Summoning Jaimihr, he
ordered that the note be despatched
by orderly direct to Major Bishop and
given to no other hands, woodhouaa
Ewho. overheard his SUPERIOR ofe;car.s
command, was filled with an.
p~rehension. What Mrs. Sherman had
said at table-this hurried. note d
Bishop; there was but one i~nterpreta-
ton. to give to the affair-CrandalIs
suspicious were all alive again. Ye,
at three-thirty-at the Hotel splen-
dide-