Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-06

oul : I0u you you We BOIfIo r6coB-
nize me. Ny numbers Nineteen Thir-
ty-two. My ticket was stolen out OF
the head OF my cane somewhere be-
tween Paris and Alexandria. But / got
1t all right-got 1t from the Wilhelm
strasse direct, with orders to report to
Doctor Emil Koch, in Alexandria"
Capper! Capper, who was to be be-
trayed to the firing squad in Malta,
after his Wilhelmstrasse. ticket had
passed from his possession. Capper on
the job!
.Woodhouse hurled every foot pound
of his will to hear into his ears. He
caught Koch's gruff answer:
Young man, you're talking mad
ness. You're talking to a loyal British
subject. ! know nothing about your
Wilhelmstrasse or your number. If I
did not think you were drunk I'd nave
you held mere, to be turned over the
military as a spy. Now, go before I
change my mind"
Again the querulous protestation Of
Capper. met by the doctors perempt-
DRY order. The captain heard the front
door close. A long wait, and Doctor
koch's black beard, with the sur
mounting eyes of thick glass, appeared
at a parting of the folding doors.
Woodhouse, the tiny thermometer still
sticking absurdly from his mouth, met
the basilisk stare of those TWO ovals
OF glass with a coldly casual glance.
He removed the Thermometer from
etWeen his lips and read 1t, with a
smile, as If that were part Of playing
q game. Still the ghastly stare from
the glass eyes over the bristling beard,
notwithstanding.
Well" Woodhouse said lightly, mo
need OF an alibi evidently"
Doctor Koch stepped into the room
with tho Jj0hfnA-r ~ - ~~k .-zIY.-A -
g. desk drawer at one side, and FUN
pled there a second, his back to his
guest. When he turned he held a
short-barreled automatic at his, nip;
n muzzle covered the shfrt-sleeved
man in the chair.
Much need-for an alibi-from
you'll" Doctor Koch croaked, his voice
dry n fla with rage. Much need,
Mister Nineteen Thirty-two. Com.
mence YOU explanation immediately,
for his minute my temptation il
strong-very strong-to shoot you for
h dog you are"
us this-ah, customary" Wood
house twiddled the tiny mercury TUBE
between his fingers and looked UNI
Sinchingly at the small round mouth
OF Of the the automatic; DO you make a
revolver at your hip? ?"
you heard-what was said in
there!" Koch's forehead was ~curicusly
ridged and flushed with much blood.
Did you ask me TO listen? Surely.
my dear doctor. you have provided
doors h a are sound-proof. II I may
suggest, isn't 1t about time that you
explain this-this melodrama?" The
captains voice was cold; his lips were
drawn to a thin line. Koch's biz head
from side to side with a ees-
ture ~curiously like that of a bull about
TO charge, but not knowing where his
enemy stands. He blurted out:
For your information, If you did
oVerhear: An Englishman comes
just now to address me familiarly as
OF the Wilhelmstrasse. He comes to
say ne was sent to report to me; that
MS number in the Wilhelmstrasse Ia
thirty-two-nineteen thirty-
two, remember; and I am to give him
orders. Please explain that before !
pull this trigger"
he showed you his number-his
ticket, then?" Woodedhouse added
parenthetically.
The man said his ticket had been
stolen from the head of his cane.
ne mad 1t concealed. But the
lumber was nineteen thirty-two." The
doctor voiced this last doggedly.,
You have, of course. had this MAJ
LolloWed," the other put in. You have
not let him leave this house alone"
caesar was after him before he
Ieit the garden Systematically,
Woodhouse held I'm an ,+.-
hand. iup'iii
Pardon me. Doctor Koch; did Won
get this fellows name?"
H refused to give ft-sajd r
know him, anyway"
Was he an understood man. verv
min, sparse hair, and q face showjng
Woodhouse went on
Nervous, jerky way of talking-fnr.
TO MS mouth, as if to feel his
words as they come out-brandv nr
eo0SS WHO ne
II guess nothing"
The target!"
Attic word Louisa had used in de-
'cr1olng Capper to Woodhouse, Koch,s
his pistol. '"eeo
"Ach!" he said. THE man thew are
o arrest. And you have the number"
mat was Capper-Capper, for
merry OF the Belgian office-kicked
'ut for drunkenness. One time he soId
,ut Downing Street in the matter Of
ne Lord Fisher letters; you remem-
n scandal when they came 70
majesty, the kaiser's Kiel
peech referring to them. He is 2. eood
talking horse"
koch's suspicion had left him. Still
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