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agreed, 1lnallV. "A CONSIDERABLE
outlay will be necessary"
"You will be reimbursed. Fur
thermore," Pachmann added, 81
will myself explain to the emperor
how greatly you have assisted us. %
Hausmann bowed coldly.
els there anything else2" he
asked.
"You have watched the wire
less?"
"Yes."
cit must be watched even more
closely. No message in cipher,
nor any that is at all questionable,
must be sent or delivered. If there
are complaints afterwards, the
failure can be explained as an
oversight"
Again Hausmann bowed.
"And finally" said Pachmann,
81 have here a message, which |
would ask you to have sent at
once."
1t was in cipher and a long one,
and it took half an hour to trans
init, for the wireless man at the
Cape Code station was required to
repeat it for notification. Then
it was hurried on by telegraph to
New York, and finally delivered
at the German consulate, where
the chief of the German secret
service, to whom it was addressed,
read it with great care.
Miss Ward, meanwhile, was
finding the hours long. The prince
had furnished a slight divertisse-
ment the day before; but today
there was no such relief in sight,
and she found herself singularly
restless. This was, in part, a re-
Election of her fathers mood, for
she had never known him so nerv-
out and irritable. The lines in his
face had deepened, his eyes were
brighter than ever, and he waved
her impatiently away whenever
she ventured to address him.
Plainly, a crisis was at hand, and.
as she saw how her father was at
fected, she awaited it with fore
boding.
She tried to read and gave it
up, for she could not fix her atten-
ton on the page; she sat for a long
time looking at the sea, and then
turned her eyes away, for it's rest
lessness increased her own; she
went for a walk about the deck,
but it seemed to her in every pair
OF eyes turned upon her there was
suspicion and aversion. How glad
she was that the voyage was al
most ended! 1t had started hap
PLY enough, and then, quite sud
denly, it had become wearisome
and hateful.
1t was inevitable that, at this
point, her thoughts should fly to
Dan. What a nice boy he was!
She would see him tomorrow night
she had promised him that! And
before thatY Would it be too un-
dlgnified for her to steal up again
to that bench on the after boat
deck-would it-would it precipi-
tate matters9 She did not want to
do that and yet
Good afternoon" said a voice,
and some one fell into step beside
her, and she looked up and saw
that it was Dan. For an instant,
she fancied it was only the visual
lzation of her own thoughts; then
she winked the mists away.
"This is nice of you," she said.
~ was just wishing for-some
one. l was dreadfully bored"
"You We're a thousand miles
away. l passed you twice and you
didn't even e me-. If it hadn't
been for my newspaper training,
I'd have made off to my den."
I'm very glad you didn't. 1
really wanted to talk to you"
Suppose we go up to the boat
deck said Dan, "where you ="
He stopped.
"Where I WHAT"
Dan led the way up the ladder
without replying; but a CLEAN of
understanding penetrated Miss
Yards mind when she saw him 20
straight to the bench where she