Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06

by the picture which they all knew had
made audible TO any one listening at the
other end of wires any conversation
which had been held in the room.
Koenig was the first to recover from
the dumfoundment which the discovery
OCcasioned. Despite the clumsness he
had shown but few minutes before, he
sprung up the ladder with agility and
busily traced the course of the wire.
which had been concealed so cunningly
behind the molding by operatives of the
secret service. Then he quickly descend
ed and, carrying tn ladder with him. ran
to the adjoining wall of the room, where
his keen eyes had shown him the wires
ran into the plaster. Again he mounted
wire. pulling plaster away reCklesslT
finally tearing a hole large enough to
expose the wires running upward by
means Of a water pipe.
The plumbers when they were here
for the leak in that wall. must have
been Secret Service" jerked out Won
Papen between savage ferrid oaths as
the explanation of how the photograph
had been installed came to him.
"Qu'ck Upstairs. and If you find any
one at the other end kill him before he
has chance TO utter a word of what he
has heard tonight" he ordered: and then
led the way to the stairs leading to the
upper floors. drawn automatic revolver
in hand.
Eoenig quickly traced the wires to the
office room of IN untenanted loft in a
building adjoining the Hoh2nzollern
Club The door of the room wnS lock II.
but gave way easily TO the burly shoul-
ders of kocnig Matches quickly showed
conditions which caused a general sigh
Of relief. Three chairs in the room, the
table the floor and every niece of furni-
ture was covered with undiSturbed dust.
thick enough to be the accumulation of
weeks
NO one has been in here in months
said Boy-Ed running his hand over ne
I'D hnlH Va
Here are newspapers five months
old" announced Won Lert2, picking up
several from corner and shaking the
dust from them that he might read the
date lines.
The evidence that ther plotting of
the evening could not have been over
heard by the use of the dictograph
was SO conclusive
that they stayed in
Son Papen Gives the musty smelling
FinaI Instruc room but few Sec
tions onds and then re-
turned to the more
comfortable quar-
ters of the clubroom they had left so
hurriediy. With the portrait of the
Kaiser once more restored to it's ac-
cuStomed Dla"". Won Papen delivered the
final instructions.
"Boy-Ed you will accompany me to
Washington so that we can be with
that we are tax ng no active part.
Koenig. you stick closely to your aC-
customed business. Won Lertz, you WI
go to Buffalo and assume charge. For
Nerbecht. Madam stephan and Mss
Mason with you. | have suggested NJ SIS
Mason because OF the impr assion she
has made upon that lucky whelp Har
rison Grant. president of the Crimi-
nOlOgy Club. II he should happen to ap-
pear anywhere on the scene, a thing
which is not unlikely, due to ,h'9 in
formal luck in being wherever he can
harm us most, Miss Mason must do
anything to keep him away from the
canal the night of the day after to-
morrow. The Baroness and Madam can
care for any other men who are too in
truSive. Ten O'Clock of tn" second night
from tonight is the hour Of the destruC-
ton of the canal. We will be awaiting
word of your success at the Imperial
German Embassy in Washington. Good
night"
Koenig and Won Lertz accepted their
dismissal and left the club together, but
parted at the door Koerig to go on
the Sixth avenue elevated station for a
train to take him to less refined but
more familiar resorts in lower Man
haitian. and Won Lertz to hurry to the
telephone booths In the Hotel Plaza.
From telephone there he pleaded in
vain with Dixie Mason for permission
to see her but a few minutes at orce.
He finally accepted her dctum that
the earliest possible moment at which
she could meet him. Ee could not know
that his voice had betrayed the fact
plot was pending and that she wanted
her meeting with the spy to be in some
public place where it would be poss BILE
to get word to the Secret Service at
once Of any information she might ac-
quire.
So it was Tot by accident that Harri-
son Grant, president of the Criminology
club, was seated in an automobile just
outside an entrance
to one of Broad
ways biggest ho-
Dixie Mason Meets tells when Dixie
Harrison Grant Mason emerged-ll2
following day, T., IA
h e passerhy7 An
would have seemed a chance meeting.
extremely pleasurable to both.
When did YOU take the dictOgraph
out Of the Hohenzollern Club?" she
asked as he leaned out of the car to
grasp her hand.
Last night" was his answer
Last night? Why. Heinrich just as
sured me that he knew for a fact that
a photograph that was discovered had
not been used in months"
The impression we want him and
the other worthless to get" responded
Grant, and then to appease her curios-
ity, since the day we installed it |
knew that It might be discovered at
any time and prepared for it. 1t might
have nullifed great deal of informa- =
ton If they suspected any one knew OF
conversations held in the club ! was
listening last night when Koenig fell
against the picture and exposed the re-
ceiNer. Newspapers six months old, were
in the corners of the room prepared for
this emergency, and we carefully scat
tered bags of dust which we had there
over everything. We were descending
the fire-escape when they broke into the
IOom'
Then you have all the information
have gathered from Won Lertz," said
Dixie. well concealing the disappoint,
ment she felt. You know that another
attempt is TO be made TO dynamite the
Welland Canal and there is nothing
| can do TO help"
We still need plenty of help. just Of
the peculiar kind you can give u.s. said
Grant. We only know that an at
tempt is TO be made, and that the dyna
mite has been procured. The canal /,
nearly twenty-seven miles long ant
to learn the place where the attempt |!
70 be made would help us Also ar
dea as TO when the attempt is to b,
1 made"
! Then | have some Information fo
you" smiled Dixie. Heinrich has jus
invited me 10 go to Buffalo with Bar
oness Verbecht, Madam Stephan an,
himself tonight. The Baroness anC
\ Madam are to entice any curious mel
away from their duties, and l am to SCI
that you discover nothing In case you
4 luck should guide you to the spot"
\ With such an inducement nothing car
prevent me from reaching Buffalo TO
morrow" said Grant
"By-by, then, until we meet there,
answered Dixie, and she turned TO re
4 enter the hotel.
few momen's later she had reinin@'
a Heinrich Won Lertz iu the dining room
and was assuring him that the massag
which he had suggested had all bu
vanished her headache. Eagerly he eX