Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-18
BY........
ARTHUR B.
Rec VE...

hasty word to the doctor
Whats thatf Look?" e1d3eSme4
pointing to the card from which tAA
letters HR had already faded a. mys.
teriously ~ they had appeared. leaving
the card blank again.
TT 10 the keyI" he cried, sxcltollp
Written In sympathetic ink. Al lass
We have It all"
the two pieces of paper made he now
wrote quickly the alphabet again, bort.
xontally across the top. starting with
II, and vertically down the side. start
Ing with r, thus:
"See!" exclaimed Kennedy. trium-
phantiy, working rapidly. Take the
word war. for instance; , The sSusrs
D. So put down SD. The odd letter
r, with q dash. 10 in line r, column 7.
So put down RY. WAR thus become1
sDRY. Working It backward from
sDRY. take the two letter: 80. IN
square. and in line r, column =. and
Just R-making the translation Of the
cipher read War Now" he went on
excitedly. take the message We hsyes
"sOwC FSsJwA EKNLFTBY wOvH.
Tx IHWAJYKH 101MLEL WCIURU
GHIHDA ELBA.
"I translate each pair Of letters - !
come to them" He was writing rapid
"Have located New York headquartsrs
at Io1 Eveningside avenue. apartment
K"
kennedy did not pause. but dashed
from the room. followed by Grady ana
myself.
nuo we saw that the address was .
new but small apartment house. We
entered and located apartment X.
Casting about for a way to get In
Craig discovered that the hre-escape
could be reached from q belcony BY
the hall window. He swung himself
over the gap. and we followed It was
the work OF only minute to force
the window latch. We entered NO
one was there.
As we pressed after him he stopped
short and flashed his electric bulrs-eye
about with an exclamation Of startled
surprise. There was fully eQuippsd
chemical and electrical laboratory.
There were explosives enough to hava
blown not only US but whole block
to kingdom come. More than that, u
was a veritable den OF potsons. On q
table stood beakers and test tubes n
which was crushed . paste that sti1
showed parts of the red ruttee beans.
Some one planned here to kill ehir-
ley. get him out of the way" recon.
one working under the cloak OF orteue
tai religion"
MRS. Anthony" querisd Grady. Ksu-
needy shook his head.
ION the contrary, like Shirley. she
was an agent of the Indian secree
service. The rest OF the cipher shows
it. She was sent to watch soma one
else, as he was sent to watch Mrs..
Rogers. Neither could have known
that the other was on the case. 6ns
found out. first. that the package with
the prayer-bean and the word Gadhr
was an attempt to warn and save Shtrs
ley, whom she had known In Calcutta,
and still loved. but feared to coms
promise. She must have tried to SEE
him, but failed. She hesitated to write
but finally did. Then some one must
have seen that she was dangerous. An.
other poisoned bomb was sent to hers
No; the nautch-girl is innocent"
Ssh" cautioned Grady.
Outside we could hear the footstepa
of some one coming along the hall
Kennedy snapped on his light the
door opened.
throw it"'
the direction Of the table. on which
stood the half finished glass bomhRs
Grady and ! hung forward at the In.
truder, not knowing what We would
A moment later Kennedy had found
the electric switch and dashed up the
lights.
II was Singh, who had used Mrs.
Rogers money and Ra3nanandra'a
religion to cover his conspiracy OF 70.
volt. ..
Copyright. 1917, by the Mcclure Newspassf
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