Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-17

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They once more sought the woods as
a place of concealnent and then made
their way RAPIDLY toward the point
few moments It was in view, and also a
strange sight Two square sections of the
beach seemed to be tilted upward and
from the hole thus made boxes, many
of them, were being taken and carried
to the boat.
Clever" commented Grant, although
simple. The mouth of the tunnel was
closed with two doors flush with the
beach and then they We're covered over
with sand, making them invisible except
when one was very close to them. A
good example of camouflage."
They watched the loading of the boat
for some time. Then Grant becokoned to
Dixie and led the way farther back into
the woods.
The boat is higher in the water than
when We passed." he said "Evidently
we interrupted the unloading of a cargo
and the reloadng has just been started
The Sound Boat Club, where it will be
easy to procure a speedy launch Is only
about ten miles from here. While | go
there and get a craft which can keep
up with anything in these waters, will
YOU go to the other boat and watch
from the promontory to guard against
the launch leaving before I returned?"
A nod from Dixie and they separated
Grant to walk only half mile when he
came to motor road upon which auto
mobiles were passing frequently. He
Lad no trouble in getting speedily to his
destination. He knew several of the
boat-club members and every craft in
commission was offered to him. Choos,
forty-two miles an hour on her trials,
he started back at the best speed the
motors could produce
Dixie reported that everything had
been quiet during his absence The spy
had recovered consciousness, and Dixie.
with womanly compassion for suffering,
had eased his aching head somewhat
with a cool bandage.
The shadows Of approaching night
soon began 10 darken the shores. Grant
picked up the German spy and carried
him to the speed boat. Then in order
not to leave any explanation to any one
who might come to relieve the captive,
the launch was hitched to the back OF
: the speed boat and lowed into the sound.
there to be turned adrift Grant then
turned the speed boat back in the direc-
tion of the tunnels end.
, AS they arrived. they saw the lights
, of the German craft just moving away
: from shore. Grant fell in close behind
and adapting his
: speed to that OF
the strange craft
Trailing the settled down for II
: German Agents stern chase. The
launch, which botr
Grant and Dixie
!, felt sure was loaded with crates and
boxes similar to those which Dixie had
seen in the farmhouse in the morning
headed straight for New York, and held
l to the course.
Morning had nearly arrived when the
launch headed inlo a dock on the Brook.
l lyn waterfront. There three trucks were
awaiting and the cargo was quickly
: transferred. Grant and Dixie landed al
wharf several yards distant, and then
: crept back to where the launch was un.
, loading AS the first rays of morning
3 lG.~l., II.
were disclosed as bearing the name o
one of the largest shippers in Brooklyn.
i mo numbers, however" said Grant
Evidently some more camoutiage."
: The little Secret Service operative an,
= the president of the Criminology Clh
= had no difficulty in following the truck
: after they had left the dock They wen
o directly across the lower part of Brook
I lyn to Brooklyn Bridge. across to New
II York and. then to the ferries to Jerse,
: City. Here the crates were all un
e loaded into an express receiving station
= Waiting until the trucks had unloade
!. of members of the Crminology Clut
IT whom Grant had summoned by tele
phone, he and Dixie entered the expires
Y office. Their credentials gained ther
d readily the information they wanted, tn
d addresses to which the packages wer
consigned. After he had made careft
Id note of them. and had also taken othe
lie addresses from the express book of des
tinations of packages which had bee
n brought by the same trucks on previou
ne days. Grant ordered all the boxes cor
ce tsGated; Then he broke one open 1seI an an
ar cartridges. Another showed bombs fasf
&c oned after the latest mode of manufat
st ture used in the trenches in Europe.
ke After leaving the express office Grar
ty and Dixie each filed long message
NJ Washington. Then they ordered heart
z. breakfast, the first cooked meal the
;e had had since, the previous morning
e. Crimnology Club, where messages WEI
ne awaiting them from Washington gran
of ing the cooperation which had been r.
ed quested. From then until early in II
ell evening they were busy sending instru'
IS tions for raids to points in every part !
er the United States which had been ina
se Gated by the addresses gained from II
a express packages.
# Shortly after the clock had struck
p- the hour set for the raids. the nrst repo
&C. reached Grant at the Criminology Gu
ng Long Island. The net there had capture
he the first of many who were later 70
en- convicted of sedition in the courts
San Francisco. The names given on z z
ne ee H. L. Gupta. but Heinrich Won Lertz HI
he not been found on the premises: FRO
no New Jersey came report that the ra
ew had disclosed that school, teachll
IN method of bomb manufacture and q
- latest uses to which heavy expiosiv
'ey Dhirenda Kumar Sarkar. Ram Chand
NO no and a number of lesser lights we
ms caught in San Francisco. A schooi
eo. instruction for officers under the tuteia
OF of Yada Sarif near Seattle was raide
+. Frederick Jabson former officer IN
~ German navy, was caught on the faci
ing coast also. He had two ships all outf
'elt ted for transporting the army which
al being raised and trained in the Unit
re- States for rebellion against England
he India Many other places in various Sc
ash tions Welded their quota of prisone
and evidence of the extent to which I
led Imperial German plot against Englai
me fomented on the neutral soil OF 7
m United States had progressed. Last Z
led not least all Of the German operate
ere were removed peremptorily from I
wireless station at Sayville. AS the to
aid of the number of prisoners mounted
ing the mass Of evidence increased. era
all remarked to Dixie. who had been seat