Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-27
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The Ira Eedy Of Wise

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that TINS Grabbed old Walloon was To he
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me- 70 sayo" Rut tho expectoration no less
than the hitting tone lent the words a far
deenor meaning
r,iro,. NO., rooggurod nAro you Mon
sieur Henri .Iooso" he said
"Av
"rbis l,d,, and have came fro,, Ak
Ia -CbaraIIe with vour man. Naertz"
"Oh he's alive them"
81 hone so But may We not euter?'
tooe eved tho engine cleaners official can
and soiIed clothes and his suspicious gaze
travelled 10 Dalroy's weI-htting and ex-
ncnsiys boots
who tho deuce are vouo' he snapncd.
"Il toll YOU IL Won let MS come in
"I cant hinder YOU II is an order all
doors must be left omen"
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The only signs OF disorder IN the room
we're supplied by a quantity ot empty wine
bottles, drinking mugs soiled plates ana
cutlery spread on a broad table Irene
sank into one OF half dozen chairs which
had apparently been used by the teasters.
Joos chuckled HIS laugh had an ugly
sound, PITY YOU weren't twenty minutes
sooner he gurawed' YOU'D nave had
company, pleasant company visitors from
across the frontier
u, too, nave crossed the frontier said
irene. wan smile lending pathos to her
beauty y Travelled with Germans from
Berlin II ! saw German now think ]
should die
~ that Madame Joos rose, Calm thy
SELF ltenrL She sald. THESE people are
friends
Maybe retorted her husband. lie turned
on Dalroy with surprising energy, seeing
that he was some twenty years older than
his wife. You say that you came with
Maertz he went on. Where is he? He
has been absent four days
BY this time Dalroy thought he had taken
the measure OF his man. No matter what
the outcome to himself personally, Miss
Berestord must ne heIped, she could 60 no
farther without food and rest He risked
everything on the spin ot a coin We are
English, he said, speaking very slowly and
distinctly, SO that each syllable should pene-
trate the combined brains of the Joos fam
lily, We we're only trying TO leave Ger
many meaning harm to none, but were ar
rested as spies at AiN-la-Chapelle. We es-
capped by ruse | knocked man silly and
took some ot his clothes. Then we hap
pened on Maertz al corner Of Franz
Strasse and persuaded him to give us lift
We logged along all right until we reached
the CROSSROADS beyond the hin there" and